Flower

"A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love."- Max Muller

This was shot at ISO 400, 1/10, f/2.8.

Last week in Multimedia class we had a project to shoot pictures and audio to put together a video based on the theme "A Day In the Life..."

I wanted to shoot a professional florist. I love flowers, and I love making arrangements and such. These are two of the shots I took while I was there to go into the video. They were both shot with a D90, 50 mm lens.

This was shot at ISO 800, 1/40, f/2.8.

Macro Week 3

I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything. ~John Steinbeck

This is a picture of rosemary shot with a 60mm macro with available light, at ISO 800, 1/50, f/4.8


This is a picture of the inside of a detergent bottle. It was shot with a 60 mm macro with the model lights from a flash, at ISO 200, 1/80, f/4.8

I actually had it in mind to shoot other things this week, but I think sometimes it is better to just go explore with the equipment you have at your disposal at the time, especially when you're having a creative block. This was also the first time I applied any photoshop techniques (other than basic retouching) to any of my macro shots.

Macro Glass

“Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.”-Edward Weston

This week our assignment in macro was to shoot glass in black field and light field. It was a good refresher on how to light glass, and a new challenge to light glass that is a bit smaller than I had previously lit.

Both were shot with a D90, 105mm AF macro lens, 1/100, f/29, ISO 200.

Thanks to a friend for allowing me to borrow this nifty little shot glass, I was really impressed with the laser etched design.

What Is It? Week 2

This week for macro I shot my friend's tiny owl made out of dried plant/wood. I shot with a D700, 105 mm macro lens, at ISO 200, f/22, 1/6 under halo lights.

This is the back of the owl. It was shot with a D700, 105 mm macro lens, at ISO 200, f/22, 1/6

This is an antique light meter that I have. I shot it with a D700, 105 mm macro lens, at ISO 200, f/22, 1/4.

I had never used the 105 mm macro lens and I had also never used the halo lights before. This week I really wanted to branch away from using the 60 mm macro since I've used it so much in the past.

Magnification Ratios

In Macro this week, we had an assignment to pick an object and shoot it at different magnification ratios, starting at 1:10 and ending at 1:1. This is a layout I did using all 10 images. Click on the image to see it in a larger view. Thanks to all the other photo students who contributed advice on how to comfortably fit all 10 into one layout! That was a challenge.

Fingerprint

"Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. "

Shooting macro really makes me look at things a lot differently. There are so many weird textures and designs in things we don't even think of. Fingerprints look so much more pronounced up close.

Shot with a D300, 60 mm lens, 1:1 ratio.

ISO 200, f/9, 1/15 sec

Music

"Music is what feelings sound like."

This semester I am taking Macro Photography and for our first assignment we were just supposed to shoot 2-3 images using the macro equipment we had just been checked out on. I caught some interference on the back of this CD. Using the Macro equipment is a challenge, and technically speaking, very different than shooting regular sized things. There were a lot of problems that I discovered just from experimenting. I am glad we did this assignment, because it was important for me to discover what I needed to look out for in the future.

This was shot with a D300, and a 60 mm, at a 1:1 ratio. I shot with two 750 hot lights.

ISO 200, f/32, and .4"