January Challenge - Macro - Discussion Thread

AB22 Easy Tiger · 1st January 2012, 12:24 AM

The theme for the first challenge of 2012 is Macro Photography.

Most digital compacts have a macro setting and using the right lenses on (D)SLRs will produce some good results, so I think it's a theme that everyone can have a go at.

Some info here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macrophotography
http://photo.net/learn/macro/

Shots must be taken and posted between now and midnight on Jan 31st.

Happy shooting

smoker · 1st January 2012, 11:43 AM

Interesting subject. Can see this favouring people with ££££££ macro lenses.

May try one of these with a wide lens:

http://www.srb-griturn.com/canon-eos...ngs-1656-p.asp

AB22 Easy Tiger · 2nd January 2012, 12:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by smoker

Interesting subject. Can see this favouring people with ££££££ macro lenses.

May try one of these with a wide lens:

http://www.srb-griturn.com/canon-eos...ngs-1656-p.asp

I considered this, but most point and shoot compacts have really good macro modes, so I decided to run with it.

AB22 Easy Tiger · 6th January 2012, 02:20 PM

Nice one Searoad, I was going to have another bash at one of those myself.

robcal · 6th January 2012, 05:07 PM

Bugger, I was hoping to attempt to do a water drop at the weekend too.

Searoad · 6th January 2012, 11:13 PM

Thanks AB, you can guess what I've been doing while avoiding her folks over xmas!

@Robcal; yea, go for it! always fun making a mess and then blaming the dog..

smoker · 8th January 2012, 02:37 AM

That's going to be hard to beat. What's the contraption involving the enlarger you referred to?

peachbum · 8th January 2012, 02:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Searoad

Thanks AB, you can guess what I've been doing while avoiding her folks over xmas!

Was that a ten second exposure? Or a typo? (your comp entry).

Searoad · 8th January 2012, 03:09 AM

well I tried taping pop bottles to a tripod, then made a wooden frame... neither would get the droplets into the same place so I dug out an old enlarger and used that to hold a couple of smaller bottles rather than 2 litre pepsi... The old Vivitar enlarger is an ideal shape, with a solid frame, adjustable in height, directly over a nice flat surface... works well.

edit; "contraption" is spot on! Heath Robinson would have rejected the design for being silly!

yep, 10 (ten) second exposure...

smoker · 8th January 2012, 11:19 AM

Wonderful idea. You should try it with a range of liquids of different viscosities, eg milk, cooking oil, honey etc.