The photo challenge for the next two weeks is photographing small things. Try using your macro lens or a lens with extension tubes. A great technique for this type of photography is focus stacking. Click here for a great article on this subject by Bruce Wunderlich of the Digital Photography School.
Please keep you uploads at or below 1600 pixels wide or 1050 pixels high.
a bumble bee ISO 100 f14 105mm 1/200
last of the gladiolus ISO 100 f13 105mm 1/200
Flowers reflected in water drops. Taken at Riley Park with my 50-230 mm lens at f/6.2, 1/800 sec, ISO 250
PEAK! I didn’t notice the little fellow until I got home. Took my Tamron 90mm Macro lens to Reader’s Rock Garden for the last walk of the season. There is not much to see; gardens are being prepared for winter. Picture was cropped. FL 90 mm, S 1/500, F5.6, ISO 1000, CW Metering.
Small spiderweb backlit by the sun under our porch eve.
ISO 1600, 246 mm, f/11, 1/2500 sec
Frankie, I really like the rainbow colours on the rings of the web,
Thanks! Something new for me!
I found this lovely miniature garden in our neighbourhood. This has been around for years. I am amazed that nobody has stolen any of these high quality miniatures. I used my 35 mm macro lens and high ISO (5000) to be able to shoot with f/18 for depth of field.
Here is my second favourite shot. (same settings)
We are in Saskatchewan visiting my sister-in-law who has an extensive garden. Spotted this ladybug on one of her plants. It was crawling around but not too fast so I was able to capture some photos.
Aperture Priority, ISO 100, f/2.4, Shutter 1/160 sec, FL 24 mm
Cropped and lightened shadows using Photoshop Elements
f/6.3, 1/250, iso100
This was not a macro shot – I was some 5ft away, but I liked the ‘art’ look when I zoomed in
f/3.3, 1/1000, iso100
Mushrooms along the pathway towards Kinney Lake at the base of Mt Robson. You don’t always need a macro lens for macro photography. 1/100 sec at f / 5.6, ISO 320. Edited in Lightroom and sharpened in Topaz Photo AI. 238mm using my RF100-500 lens.
A sure sign of summer coming to an end is when my wife comes home with new gourds for the centrepiece. As I looked through the view finder I noticed what looks like some kind of green creature with a snout and an eyeball. Taken at a distance with 300 mm telephoto lens. ISO 3200, f/10, 1/320 hand held. Colour & light adjustments in Apple Photos, sharpening in GIMP.
Gourd with bug. Taken with one extension tube. ISO 3200, f/16, 1/4 using tripod and remote shutter release. Colour & light adjustments in Apple Photos, sharpening in GIMP.
Bee going in for a landing on the flowers at Riley Park. Taken with my 50-230 mm lens at f/6.7, 1/800 sec, ISO 250
a cruise in the dog park leaf with the enhancements in HDR to sharpen the edges
this is a larch bud the green was selected and slider to a lovely blue then the center bud
slider to violet
Still some colours left in my garden.
AP, spot exposure, ISO 100, f/4.0, 1/1250 sec, FL 127 mm
Cropped and lightened in Photoshop Elements