Thursday, June 4, 2009

Will I Stamen or Will I Go?


Shot these pollen pods on Violet's weird flower thing. The weird flower thing is beautiful in regular size, and just as cool in microscopic.

You can see how much is out of focus in this shot; it is frustrating shooting tiny stuff because the usable depth of field is so shallow. In this photo, I estimate it was around 2 or 3 mm. {CORRECTION: I actually believe now that my usable depth is more like half a millimeter, or in microscopic talk, 500 microns}

I've already stopped down to f32, so there's not much more I can do. While I'd like to have more elements in the photo in focus, that doesn't seem possible without digitally stacking a group of photos.

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


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