Assign #12: Macro

[Nikon Fan]

The assignment for this week is Macro If you don't have macro capabilities try and do the best you can with the equipment you have. As always a new assignment will be posted next monday, and try to go and take new shots rather than posting old ones

 

[Eric.]

 

[Meysha]

Eric that's awesome! It looks like a painting almost!

*sob* I can't take macros. *sob* I'll have to wait till next week. Good luck everyone!

 

[DarkEyes]

Heres my contibution. My camera isn't well suited to macro, but it is [just] capable of producing reasonable images at a greater than 1:1 Ratio.

 

[LaFoto]

This is as "macro" as I can go with my little compact digital camera.
The yellow on top of each pistil measures 1mm, so the fly is only 2mm in size.
I am not unhappy with the result.
The entire flower is 3,5 cm in diametre (would that be an inch and a half?)

 

[ferny]

Eric that's awesome! It looks like a painting almost!

*sob* I can't take macros. *sob* I'll have to wait till next week. Good luck everyone!

You camera hasn't got a macro mode? That's strange. You can always get creative with magnifying glasses as well.

 

[LaFoto]

I happened over this one upon working in the garden, so here you go (and it could enter in the theme "Green" and also "Creepy Crawlies")

 

[Big Mike]

OK...enough of this "close-up" stuff....lets get some "MACRO" shots in here

 

[cactus waltz]

 

[LaFoto]

So? Big Mike?
What IS it????
(And yes, I am aware of the fact that "close-up-stuff" is all I can manage...)

 

[thebeginning]

fried. chicken.

 

[Big Mike]

So? Big Mike?
What IS it????
(And yes, I am aware of the fact that "close-up-stuff" is all I can manage...)

Well you are going to have to take a few guesses before I give it up...

And it's not fried Chicken

 

[LaFoto]

Well, my first assumption was "Your Breakfast Cereal", but I have come off that thought fairly soon.

But is this the Super Macro Guessing Game or the Assignment, hm?
Spill it, Big Mike. It looks - sticky.

 

[Big Mike]

OK, OK... :lol

It's just a slice of bread, 60% whole wheat to be precise.

I reversed a 50mm lens on to my 18-50mm lens and this is about a 50% crop of that (to get rid of the vignetting). Lighting was from the side with a halogen work light.

 

[LaFoto]

BREAD!
Oh!
I would not have guessed that - ever!
But now that you're telling us.......... well. Bread. Cool one! Beats all our other attempts, of course...