Mimi picked up a magnolia leaf and wanted me to shoot it. This is the result.
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Showing posts with label leaf. Show all posts
Showing posts with label leaf. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Friday, November 13, 2009
Yellow Leaves
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Some more leafiness and fallness.
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Thursday, October 15, 2009
Hairy Sunflower Leaves
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I've become fascinated with the sunflowers on our kitchen table. Their stems and leaves are covered with tiny hairs (like many plants I've observed), and wicked spotty patterns.
While these photos are not not going to be in my show for the Hoboken Studio Tour this Sunday, you should still come by and say hi! I'll be in the Monroe Center, Studio E417, from noon to 6pm. Go to the 4th floor, and turn left coming out of the elevator. My show is called Tiny Lab.
While these photos are not not going to be in my show for the Hoboken Studio Tour this Sunday, you should still come by and say hi! I'll be in the Monroe Center, Studio E417, from noon to 6pm. Go to the 4th floor, and turn left coming out of the elevator. My show is called Tiny Lab.
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009
All the Leaves are Brown, and the Sky is Grey
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And this is the first post of my next 100.
These pictures of plantlife getting crispy for fall were shot in mom's backyard. I love the fall palette emerging in these photos.
These pictures of plantlife getting crispy for fall were shot in mom's backyard. I love the fall palette emerging in these photos.
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Saturday, October 3, 2009
Must... Resist the Urge to Make a Thyme/Time Pun...!
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I like how toyish the colors of thyme appear in these photos. I didn't change them or add color at all. In these micro photos, the thyme sprigs look like large vines, stretching up into the sky. It's covered in odd balls of liquid, which I assume are composed of plant sap or something like it. Take a look at the cropped shot at the bottom, and see the details of the patterns all over the tiny thyme leaves.
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Fly Me to the Moon, or Right Into a Lightbulb, if You're a Moth
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And here come the creepier crawlers!
Above is the face of a moth. This was a rather small moth, actually. A larger moth would have had a larger head with more "feathers" and bigger eyes. However, I am happy with this shot anyway, because it's pretty much in sharp focus. Which is hard for such a tiny thing.
In other tiny-things-in-sharp-focus news, below is some sort of fly on a leaf. Maybe I'll find it's actually a bee and have to correct it like my last post.
One interesting detail I noticed is the little fly feet. I guess I've never seen or noticed what fly feet look like. Take a look at them, they're two little claw things, and two sticky pads. This particular fly appears to be missing the claw/pads on its left middle leg.
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Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Critters
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Say hello to my little friends.
Here are a few critters I encountered in the wild vegetation of my parents' back yard. If you haven't noticed, the last several posts have been plant related. I snapped lots of material in my recent trip.
The wasp above unfortunately had to be sprayed, since its nest was attached to the deck next to the pool where our girls spent much of their time. In the photo, the wasp is dead. Alive, its antennae would have been extended above its head, not curled down.
The spider below was a little surprise I found under the curled edge of a leaf. I had been shooting a spider web, and came across its foreman, on a snack break. Union workers, sheesh.
At the end of this post is an OOF (Out-Of-Focus) shot of some sort of fly. I've included it because I find it pretty for reasons other than being a good macro/micro photo. I like the softness of the colors and the buttery warm light. And that the fly appears to be made of metal and chrome like a motorcycle or a helmet.
We've seen critters here at Morning Macro before: some kind of butterfly, cicada wings, bizarre tiny creepers and their even smaller buddies, the cicada face, a slug, a teensy tiny snail shell, and a blue dragonfly.
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Below are the petals of a clover, those tiny flowers among the grass that bees love so much.
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Sunday, January 18, 2009
Dried Bay Leaves, in need of anti-aging cream
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In keeping with the spices and seasonings theme, here is a photo of the underside of a dried bay leaf. I hadn't expected so much detail to be visible, and I'm quite impressed by what we can see at this level of magnification.
You can see an enlarged section of the bay leaf below. This is blown up to almost a 1:1 pixel ratio to what was captured by the camera. See what I mean about sharp lines being nonexistant in the tiny world?
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I've figured out my magnification level, in case anyone was interested. My hacked-together lens setup is getting me roughly 6x magnification from what we see with our eyes. Now, keep in mind, that number is related to the sensor size in my camera, meaning that the lenses are enlarging the subject 6x from reality and that is the image I snap with my camera. So the 800 pixel wide images you see here in my blog (the enlargement directly above not included) at roughly 175mm (depending on your computer's display) are about 8x the size of my camera sensor.
This puts the true enlargement of my photos here on the MorningMacro at 19.4x the size they are in real life.
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Thursday, December 18, 2008
Snow Plant
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This is a macro shot of a plant that reminds me of a snow flake.
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Saturday, December 13, 2008
Slurp
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This little guy stopped for a drink in a cupped leaf. He was about 18mm long and a poor conversationalist.
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Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Silver Drop
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More water on leaves. I love how the background turned out in this one. Nothing special was done to the photo in post-processing, the colors and focus is accurate to how it was captured.
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Thursday, November 13, 2008
Rush Hour
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Dew drops line up on a tiny leaf. These droplets were about the size of BBs.
I shoot a lot of water and ice. The way light bounces and refracts inside of them is fascinating to me. I love how round these little balls of water are, how they look ready to just roll right off the leaf. So different than the pouring, splashy water we know in the world of bigger things.
This leaf was about an inch or smaller in real life.
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