Its been quite a while since my last post, and counting this one, I'm now exactly 10 weeks behind (or maybe 9 if I can find something else nice before the weekend) This project started out as being a year long thing, but I'm actually quite enjoying this and will probably continue ... as I may have mentioned before :-) But it will be a when I have a nice photo to post, which will hopefully still be a roughly weekly or fortnightly occurance.
I have been struggling to find something to inspire me for a while now (as if you didn't guess that by now), but my wonderful husband gave me macro extension tubes for Christmas and so I've been playing with those. If you don't know what macro extension tubes are, they are essentially just empty tubes that are placed between the camera and the lens to increase the distances between the lens and the focus point, which in turn reduces the distance to the focus point in front of the lens. In other words, it allows me to focus on closer stuff and therefore take photos of much smaller objects.
This photo is of the stamen of a geranium flower. I didn't even realize they had such intricate stamen until I started looking for something to take a macro photo of! Yes there are some water droplets too - another thing I've been playing with, but to be honest of all the photos I've taken this one had the best focus. I have learned that even at a reasonably small aperture of f22 (the smallest my lens will go), the depth of field is no more than a millimeter or two. My dioptre is set for my right eye, but even so the focus seems just a tiny bit off, so that will take further work too. But it is a nice exciting thing to be playing with and I expect to be taking more macro photos in the next couple of days.
For interest here is the same geranium flower from the top - its not a pretty flower, but it is winter and it was all that was available.
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