Morning Macro

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Flower Power Extra!

Above is a flowering bud from a bouquet in our living room. The bouquet has started out as a deep grape color, and is now slowly changing to white. It's quite bizarre. The flower above was about 5mm across. I like how the folds of the folded petals make a star-like pattern.

Our next photo, above, is a shot of baby's breath, up close. Typically, we see these tiny, half-centimeter flowers garnishing bunches of flowers in a bouquet. Here, it is a monster bloom, sparkling in the light. Below is another view of the baby's breath flower.

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Saturday, June 6, 2009

Of Belly Buttons and Straw Hats

First of all, I wanted to enlighten my devoted audience as to who they are. Below are the top 10 web searches that send visitors to my site:

1.	worlds biggest belly button
2.	worlds largest belly button
3.	belly button fuzz
4.	adam saynuk
5.	biggest belly button in the world
6.	bubble ornaments
7.	largest belly button
8.	pieromainea
9.	the worlds biggest belly button
10.	world's biggest belly button

So, who knew there was such a huge demand for information about belly button size and the fuzz which such a belly button can collect? Should I be offended that "worlds biggest belly button," "worlds largest belly button," and "belly button fuzz" are more popular reasons to hit my photoblog than I am. And I'm a bit surprised that not one of my top ten popular keyword searches has anything to do with macro photos or photography at all!

FYI, this is the post these belly button fans find in their journey here.

The strange world of Google. Now, on to the macro photos, not that all you belly button-obsessed people care anyway.

Here are two photos of straw hats, up close and personal. One, Sarah likes, the other will be returned to the store from whence it came. Interesting how different their weaves are. One, shiny and smooth, the other rough and scratchy looking.

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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.

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Back to Say Hi

Seriously, what happened to me!?!?

I realize that the three of you who used to check this site regularly have probably left never to return. At least, you are standing with your back to me, pretending I'm not, uh, posting.

And you have a right to be mad at me. I too have disappointed me. And not for the first time.

So, here are some flowers to make up for the time we've been apart. Please rip them to pieces dramatically and throw them to the floor. But first consider how cool they look. This was shot by removing my 50mm lens from the camera body, and holding it out away from the camera, and tilting a little for some distortion. What results is something like a heavily distorted macro photo.

I've decided to explore ideas that stretch my imagination in photography... the above being one of them. I kind of like the touch that making an imperfect photo brings to the observer. Digital photos are engineered to be perfect, and so I will start creating imperfect photos so counter. Why should I do what anybody else can do, and is doing?

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Wednesday, April 1, 2009

My Jomentum, Screwed

Yes, this is my first Morning Macro post in several weeks. Thanks to Project M, my mojomentum with Morning Macro has been screwed. So, above is a lovely close-up of a rusty screw for your macronius pleasure.

Sorry for the big hole in content consistency for this little site. Getting back into the swing of things at work/home after two weeks of Project M'y goodness has proven a little of a shock to the system. I can say, however, that Project M did confirm for me that there is value and success in the way I make decisions, knowing the right one when I've arrived at it rather than "project managing" absolutely every detail.

If you know me, you know that I am sort of an anti-project manager. That tends to make the people I work with/for a little nutsy. But it's how I've always done good work.

Enough about me, how about that cool rusty screw up there? Just, how about it? Seriously. Send me some ideas for tiny stuff you want to see big. Do it now, before the end of the world comes and you missed out on knowing what coriander seeds look like, or toothbrush bristles.

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

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Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Monday, we were joined by a visiting designer/art director, Jeffrey, and we retain Brian, former M'er/advisor, for the rest of the week. Above, we are discussing how to package up the pie event.

Here are some promo clips for our project: