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Well Tim and I had some more fun playing macro today - which I think we'll have to do again. Anyway, with a bit of playing and some makeshift construction of our macro studio we managed to create something we could get a few decent shots from.


We started with 2 lightbulbs. We tried to smash them with different methods. I tried a lighter and a bowl of cold water. Tim tried a hammer. Tim's turned to dust. Guess that wasn't the most efficient way to do things haha.

Anyway, after drowning this lightbulb accidentily, drying it with a hair dryer, breaking the filament and tim tying it back on by hand, we finally had a go-er.

In a rabit onslaught of slr's going off (mine and tim's) I managed to catch this on my 2nd shot. I'm pretty happy with it to be honest. I'm happy I bought this lens :D


This is another macro of a match head catching fire. Probably not that clear, but I kinda liked it all the same (well enough for it to go on my blog, maybe not my DeviantArt account).

New Toy pt. III

So Timmy and I went out to the botanical gardents today to take some photos in all its flowerless glory. The choices were either limited, or dead. Stupid drought.

Anyway, to be honest, macro flowers aren't necessarily my type of thing, I prefer more inorganic stuff like buildings to photograph and hence I really only have one photo that I actually liked out of the whole lot. Might try and pick some more out later and upload them, I'll see how I go.

I think the next shot will have to buy to buy some flowers and shoot them in a studio environment where the light can be controlled and so can the wind.

On another note, my poor macro studio that I made (see New Toy pt. II) got destroyed today hehe. Oh well.


One last shot - this little (not so little) guy stayed still for me to get right up close to him. Was pretty cool to take shots of with my macro. Shame the DOF is so narrow

New Toy pt. II

Well, I'm still sick, but I had a bit more energy to play with my new lens today. I didn't really have too much creativness in me, so the items I chose weren't anything special.

I also made myself a little DIY macro studio from Strobist. It came out quite well, though I think the light is a little too strong from the left side. I was only using a lamp, as I don't have any offboard cable or pocket wizard or anything for my flash (hence why its in the photo). Anyway, I might try putting another layer of tissue paper on to diffuse the light some more, or find another light to ballance it out somewhat. I think I also need to find a bigger box haha.


I also had a play around with macro stacking (see this quick tutorial). The whole point of it is to increase your depth of field where you just can't get it any deeper for whatever reason. Just a word of note to those that have a play with this.. use a tripod. CZ5 can align images, but not very well in my experience. Far easier if your photos are all aligned right in the first place. See the dragon above for an example of stacked photos.

And.. this is a coke bottle. wow.

New Toy

The macro has arrived! I'm so happy. I've been thinking up ideas of photos to take with this lens for ages. Unfortunately all day I've been really sick so I barely picked up the lens. I took a sample shot just to test it.


On another note, my poster, tshirt and little badges turned up today aswell from ISO50 - the artwork of Scott Hansen whos work I'm a huge fan of (both music and art). Have a look at http://blog.iso50.com/