My macro journey

[markiver54]

Excellent!

[clovishound]

Not actually macro, but I'll post it here as it seems appropriate. I loaded one more wildlife slideshow to YT. That will probably be it for a while, until things start to green up and the critters become a little more active.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QxYuHfMQ5k

[clovishound]

And another one. This one is macro and it's rendered in 4K.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5TcR0-C1k8

[markiver54]

I'm really enjoying this journey. It looked like that big guy at the end was keeping an eye on you!

[clovishound]

He could care less. He's been in his enclosure for years, with untold thousands of people wander through to gawk at him. He knows you can't get to him, and he can't get to you. I've been closer to several, during my river diving years, with at all between us. Of course, they weren't quite as big as him, although I have seen bigger than him from the boat. When you start getting guys that are around 12 ft and larger

By the way, is that you who left a couple comments? I wondered.

[markiver54]

yes, I left a couple comments and Carol and I both posted likes...because we do!

[clovishound]

I've been experimenting with a homemade diffuser for the flash. Here are a couple I shot with it.

Not a huge change, but I like the quality of the light better. Right now it's thin cardboard and an old T-shirt. I need to make a more permanent version, or purchase a commercially made one.

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[clovishound]

The nature photography club I'm a member of had a macro workshop yesterday. Very interesting, although quite different than the macro I do in the field. Got a chance to work with a light table, a droplet machine, and other interesting equipment and techniques. I especially enjoyed the droplet machine. It pumps out a specified number of droplets after a specific delay. It even had the capability to be controlled by the camera, although my camera was not one it would "talk" to. We put food coloring in the water and a bowl under the machine and photographed them as they hit the surface of the water.

These are what I got.

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I even tried a setup at home today using a ziploc bag with a pinhole suspended over a glass bowl.

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I liked this photo of a slice of chambered nautilus shell using a light table and judicious amount of fill flash. Ended up with a somewhat distracting hot spot and shadow, but gives an idea of what can be achieved.

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[clovishound]

Tried out a little different system for the drip this afternoon and was surprised with a face in the water.

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[Hatchdog]

Great stuff Clovis. Interesting to learn about the tools available to creat these incredible shots.