Monday, January 12, 2009

When planet-sized dried berries attack



This photo is from the same bunch of berries you saw in the January 5 post, "Dried Berries." You can see the effect of stacking my lenses and combining them with the macro filter on my camera, which I mentioned last post.

This berry looks like a planet compared to the previous berry post where the bunch resembles, well, red meatballs. The dust (those little hairy things) is even more apparent in this shot than the previous one. I've found shooting tiny stuff that there is dust absolutely everywhere. It sometimes takes a little more work than you expected to get a clean shot with no dust.

I've read that dust is made up of clothing and furniture fibers, dead skin cells (we shed them like snakeskins in a wood chipper) and insect parts. Fly eyes, dead mites, etc... Apparently pillows double their volume of dust mites every year. I might have made that up.

Send me your suggestions for something tiny that you'd like to see big.

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