Category Archives: Macro Photography
Another brick in the wall
1872 * 752 Cells in onion layer (used iodine to make cell cores visible). Gear: “snowflake” macro setup (i described it in article about snowflakes). Glass background with backlight, averaged 64 identical shots. Details in 1:1 scale: The keys to … Continue reading
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New snowflake wallpaper: forget-me-not
New addition in wallpapers section: Available in screen proportions 4:3, 5:4, 16:10 and 16:9, resolutions from 800 * 600 pixels (SVGA) to 3840 * 2160 (ultra HD 4k). The keys to december
Four directions
1200 * 900 Another small snowflake from this winter. Though this is hexagon, it looks like irregular triangle. Glass background with backlight, additional lens Helios 44M-5, january 2015, Moscow. 8 RAWs averaged. Commercial licenses at ShutterStock.com: variant1, variant2. More snowflakes … Continue reading
Wasp
This is focus stack of dead insect (found it under window). Captured with my usual “snowflake” macro setup (i described it in article about snowflakes). 120 RAW shots were used (20 groups with different focus, each group contains 6 identical … Continue reading
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Pollen grains of Alcea rosea (common hollyhock)
This is smallest object i’ve ever captured (except for tiny snowflakes from this ice dust collection). But for pollen this is very big grains (i’ve tried several other flower species, but all of them have so tiny grains that my … Continue reading
Leaves of ice
2555 * 1916 I’ll try to process more snowflakes from previous winters till the next snowflake season. There is lots of nice crystals waiting processing! This is quite big stellar dendrite, around 6 millimeters in diameter. 6 serial shots averaged … Continue reading
Double vision
900 * 900 This is simple photo manipulation: two copies of same snowflake merged in “difference” blending mode with small shift between copies (“normal” processing of this snowflake will be ready soon). I like colors that difference blending produced in … Continue reading
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Noontide Series #4
Noontide Series #4 A shaft of sunlight lands on a pine sapling. This was taken on Agfa APX 400 exposed at ISO 64 and pull processed in Rodinal to compress the tonal range. Pentax 6×7 and SMC Takumar 105mm f2.4 … Continue reading
Ground Spider
It’s autumn, and time to lay in firewood for the upcoming winter months. I found this spider in my wood pile as I rotated out the remnants of last year’s firewood and began stacking a newly delivered load. My best … Continue reading