Macro photos thread--any macro pics

[natmoon]

In real life I have short hair and I get mistaken for a man all the time. That I'm used to... it's kind of entertaining to watch people try to cover their asses when they realise they're wrong. But now I can't even make myself look like a hot chick on the internet? Oh no, maybe I've lost touch with my feminine side. Quick, someone give me a make-over.



Well, that's what I thought. When I was looking at new avatars and saw that one I thought she looked like a chick who could have just been reborn from the flames behind her... like the human embodiment of the phoenix, I guess. I actually thought she looked like she might have been the same chick that posed for the one with the jiggling boobies in it. LOL



I know it must be hard for you to believe, but there ARE some people out there who don't live half their life inside their computer/game machine. You can now tell all your friends that you've met one.

HeySnyder, I didn't mean any offense. Sure I've heard about Final Fantasy, even seen the odd advertising poster or two, now that you mention it. But I have no idea who any of the characters are... never even looked at the case, let alone played the game. I'm a mother, a wife, a photographer, and an artist so I don't get time to waste on games. Hell, I waste enough time on here. Whereas you sell games and see people coming into your store all day long looking for FF7... the last games I got into were Lemmings and Yoshi's Island... oh, and that Asterix game... that was cool too.

But anyway, let's put all that silliness behind us. I'll just keep looking for a new avatar. In the meantime, let's get back to the macro part of this thread... come, gather around guys... peace out, it's my shout. Here, have some buds...

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Those are some nice bud shots but if you add a light source just above the section you are photographing,switch the flash off and move the camera so that it is the minimum distance from the subject that your lens allows you will get even better,cleaner macro shots.
Best of luck

 

[Gryphonn]

Playing With Lenses - (inspired by Seamaiden and Ph03nix)

Now, these pics are rough...real rough. Ph03nix was talking to Seamaiden a little while back, talking about how Sea' reverses her lens on her DSLR (Canon?) to get extreme closeups.
I decided to try as she suggested with my old KM 5D.

Anyway, I used the standard 18-75mm lens that came with my new a200, but first I had to bodgey up (think McGyver) a way to lock the aperture open. Then I forgot to switch off the 'no lens lock'. When I got sorted, I just 'hand held' the reversed lens up to the body, used a forced flash because it was night time...had to try to prevent extraeneous light (seen in most of these shots) and generally try to keep the whole unstable mess together and get focus with a depth of field of about 1mm or less.

I'll go downtown today and buy some tape to seal it a little better and use daylight to light the buds. I have to experiment with shutter speeds, because I have no aperture control when the lens is reversed and due to having to get in real close, I can't use a tripod and I don't have a 'gorilla' or a Table-top tripod..

This is a standard shot of the bud in the close shots:

The next few are about as close as I could get. The last photo with the reflection is a leaflet that is about 2mm long by 1mm wide I guess.

When I get sorted, I'll take some standard shots, then some close ones. But on the standard shot I'll draw a square where the close ones were taken.

 

[bonz]

A few shots of some Texada Timewarp im smokin.

 

[Seamaiden]

Gryph, bonz, sweet!

You've got it right, Canon Rebel EOS (can't remember pixels, it's a few years old).

 

[Gryphonn]

Gryph, bonz, sweet!

You've got it right, Canon Rebel EOS (can't remember pixels, it's a few years old).

Thanx SeaMaiden. Tell Dave I want to try his home brew if he missed my message in the favourite beer thread.. Guess what? We went downtown this arvo, bought some groceries, bought some Chrissie pressies, bought some packing tape (clear), bought some standard sticky tape (clear), bought lotsa shit...forgot the bloody Black tape for the lens!!!

I'm going to hunt through and see if I can find some insulation tape, or some scraps of Gaffer tape somewhere. GRRRR...at me

 

[Seamaiden]

Whoops! Thusly, one must always have the ever-present, omnipotent duct tape. I'll ask Dave if he saw your post. Did he post up about what we have on tap at the moment? Thing is, for me, the peach American wheat he made is also a bit boozy for me, so I can only sip it or I'll make myself sick. Which is really too bad because it's absolutely quaffable.

 

[jollygreengiant8]

a couple cubensis shrooms i recently picked

 

[ph03nix]

I can be a bigger individual as well so I apologize for laughing. You deal with something long enough it becomes second nature to you and you start hanging around people who know what it is you forget about the "normals". And so what if I spend the majority of my time growing weed and playing video games. Thats what I do. Unlike you I have absolutely no desire to have children so all my money goes towards gadgets and gizmo's. I have always been that way. Probably always will. So no harm no foul More macros for you!

Apology accepted, and I hope you'll accept mine in turn. I didn't mean to offend, and I know that you didn't either. In fact, the whole situation struck me as quite funny... kind of ironic, considering. Anyway, it's good to know that we can all be friends again. It takes all sorts, as they say, eh? The world would be pretty boring if we were all doing the same thing. As for the word 'normal'... well, that's the first time I've heard that word used to describe me in a long time. Thanks.

Oh BTW, love the photo of the smoking bowl. That'd make a nice screensaver... or avatar...

back on topic, ,...................


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This just looks wicked. I think I'd be a little bit worried about that first nugget, to tell you the truth... at least I'd imbibe it as slowly as possible. And... nice bowl... you can see the left-over love in there.

I couldn't EVER be mistaken for a man if I wanted to. I'm too round in all the wrong places.

I still have round parts too, but these days they're all a lot closer to the ground... maybe that's what throws some people off. My favourite was the couple of buff young police officers who stopped us one day. They pulled up behind us...
"G'day fellas, how are you today?" I turned around and fixed them with a steady stare.
"Yeah, not bad boys, how are you?" Imagine a little old lady voice... a little bit exaggerated for added effect (but not much these days), a little bit sarcastic, a little bit 'stern old aunt'-ly.
It was about then that they realised that they were fronting up to a woman who would have been about the same age as their mums. The looks were precious, and the fact that they were obviously both a little flustered at their mistake was more than a little satisfying, I must admit.

I have a wee bit of penis envy. Plus, you can wave that thing around, you can waggle it, you can catch it in your zipper. I just knock my boobs around accidentally and they get in the way more than anything else.

Ooh, I was watching an episode of 'The L Word' a while back, and one of the girls wore a fake one in preparation for her operation. It was a whole unit type thing... it caught the urine and had a tube inside so that you could use public toilets, etc. It was very life-like in both appearance and feel (apparently). Maybe you could get yourself one of those to play with...

I have a friend who made me this (see attachment) from the old sea monkey photos (people used to accuse me of being a cheeky sea monkey).

I love sea monkeys. When I was a kid I bought some from one of those ads they used to have in comic books. It took me ages to save up the money, and then it seemed to take forever for them to arrive in the mail. No one else had anything like that, so I thought I was so cool. Then several years ago I saw them in the shop at christmas time. I bought some for one of my kids, but they didn't last long. I think they forgot to feed them...


Nice photos from everyone else. I'm doing some repping from this thread... but if you don't get any, it's because I need to 'spread the love'. Certain people have apparently received too much love from me already. I'll have to become a bit more liberal with my love from now on. Brings a new light to the idea of free lovin', doesn't it?.

 

[Seamaiden]

I've loved you and Gryph too much to give more before spreading it. Like well-composted manure. Cheeky sea monkey manure.

 

[ph03nix]

Ok, I've finally managed to get some more pics of the babies. You can see the depressions in the sides of the eggs more clearly now. I also managed to get a good shot of what I'm now sure is a salt build-up on the outside of the eggs. I wonder why this has happened and is it normal... is the salt simply left on the outside of the eggs as they suck moisture out of the air?... or do they eat it when they hatch?? The third shot shows a hair lying over the eggs.
I'm not sure how much longer they'll take to hatch. There's not a lot of information on these bugs... surprisingly... not that I'm dissing those bug-lovers reading this...



Now, I've also had a think about names, and with some help... here they are...That's Querkle on the far left, with Quetzlcotl right next to and slightly above him (I always wanted to name something that ). Ziggy and Marley are next, then Mary and Jane. Then comes Billie and Buddy, J and Scoob, and last, but not definately least... Yarndi and Weed.



Aren't they just the cutest little things...

 

[ganjamanuk]

got a mantis yesterday, he protects ma plant from any pests that try to munch it, and then he munches it alive himself.

 

[cowsgomoo134]

Here's some modern day stuff in my attempts of macro!

 

[cowsgomoo134]

And some buds I had to resort to buying cause you can't grow weed in a dorm safely!

 

[heftamga]

Some of my growing. 4th-5th week of flowering

 

[jollygreengiant8]

 

[ltz40055]

just some pic i snapped realy quick

 

[Seamaiden]

Cowsgomoo, you deserve an honorable mention. You have an eye for play of light and perspective. It's a lot of fun, as an observer.

Hefta, NICE!

Jollygreen, again, very nice.

 

[ltz40055]

thought these turned out OK for just point and click picks with no tripod .

 

[Seamaiden]

Oh yes, they sure did.

 

[fdd2blk]

some my wife took, ...............