I imagine I must have been a peculiar sight for the neighbours. Picture me on a snow-filled balcony on a Sunday morning, equipped with my camera, tripod... and ironing board?!? In order to do macrophotography at this scale, the lens needs to be only an inch or so from the subject, and it turns out that an ironing board is at the perfect height for my tripod/camera setup!
Photo: snowflakes II
I imagine I must have been a peculiar sight for the neighbours. Picture me on a snow-filled balcony on a Sunday morning, equipped with my camera, tripod... and ironing board?!? In order to do macrophotography at this scale, the lens needs to be only an inch or so from the subject, and it turns out that an ironing board is at the perfect height for my tripod/camera setup!
Photo: caraway seeds
After freezing my fingers for a while, I decided to move my operation indoors for some more action. The (unaltered) image on the right is of two caraway seeds.
Photo: knife blade
Here we have the edge of one of my excellent knives. Sorry Dad, I promise to sharpen them right away!
Photo: Twenty-dollar bill
And finally, a fine twenty-dollar bill. Oh right, I was supposed to mention how I'm taking these photographs. Essentially I'm taking a 50mm lens, reversing it, and attaching it to the end of my telephoto lens. And that gives me something like 4x magnification! Neat eh? Hopefully more images to come in the following weeks.
