Macro Challenge! Grain of RICE!

[cgipson1]

Challenge to all Macro lovers! Light and shoot a grain of rice, and try to show as much detail on the rice as possible. It should be dry... and preferably long grain, to make the challenge more even.

Long Grain Basmati

100% crop

 

[Tomeek]

I was looking at it thinking "what the heck is this???" something so normal can look soo strange close up. Awesome!

 

[jake337]

Gonna have to bust out the tokina 100mm tonight1

 

[cgipson1]

It was fun trying to get some detail out of it. I crosslit it trying to get the grain to show... almost crystalline! This started when I was trying to yank on Lightspeeds chain.. about trying to capture a gnat "smaller than a grain of rice" lol!

 

[DorkSterr]

Heres a quick shot of some grain of rice.

Crop:

 

[cgipson1]

I broke a grain of rice in half.. standard long grain Basmati... and tried to get a shot of the end of it.

 

[kyrontf]

Neat stuff. I've never seen grains of rice so close up. I'll try and make an entry soon!

 

[Aloicious]

I'll have to try this when I get home from work, I've shot some grains of table salt and black pepper flakes that came out pretty good.

 

[jake337]

100% crop

100% crop with curves adjusment

 

[cgipson1]

We need a judge... I can't do it, I'm biased! lol! Any volunteers?

 

[kyrontf]

Here's my shot! I'm biased too - I like all the shots so far.

And a not-so-clean 100% crop...

 

[cgipson1]

yea.. kind of fun to see what people come up with! Good shots so far!

 

[jake337]

I added 100% crops.

 

[Crollo]

I was looking at it thinking "what the heck is this???" something so normal can look soo strange close up. Awesome!

There are certain things you don't want to see up close, trust me.

 

[LungFish]

I cannot possibly win this, but here's my attempt.


Grain of rice by clavain1, on Flickr

100%


Cropped grain of rice by clavain1, on Flickr