Macro-week 2

Macro-week 1

  This little guy was being bashful.  He refused to come out the flower no matter how much I tried to disturb him! 

This week actually turned out to be a lot of fun. I am sure my neighbors must think that I've lost my mind when my camera, which is mounted on a tripod, is pointed to the end of a branch on a pine tree.
I, also, have a new set of filters that I can use on 2 of my lenses and a new appreciation for macro photographers. Conditions need to be almost perfect. You really need a tripod and a ton of patience.

This first shot is, you guessed it, the wishy from a dandelion. I will not like what all the seeds will do to my yard in a few weeks but it does make for a cool picture now.


It actually took Mike a couple of guesses to figure this one out. I don't really like the crop here, but it's macro week and I probably should've cropped in even tighter but I liked the comp here and it the original one even better, so I'm posting that one as well!

This is the shot I wanted for Wednesday but couldnt quite get it to look like it did in my mind. This is not quite it either but it's much closer than all my attempts on Wednesday. I did play a bit in PSE and there's a small crop, but not much!

Wednesday and Thurday's macro

This is today's shot. I took this with my new close up filters on my 28-75 lens. I'm not sure I like the crop I may try something else later.

This was yesterday's and I forgot to post it. My original crop didn't work out like I had hoped and this was a back up shot I took earlier in the week.

Going buggy with macro!

I found this little guy on the leaves of Iris plants Mike planted two years ago. I went out to try for the water droplet pictures, saw him, and immediately forgot to change any of the settings I had on camera from last night's indoor shot! Good thing I shot these in RAW so I could play in PSE. I also did a major crop on both shot. I processed them differently because I couldn't decide which one I liked better.

More macro...

It's been a long day with no real time to think of a good idea. I wasn't able to get the macro accessories that I wanted to try out because they were not in stock (kinda how my whole day went!)
This is my earring hanging from a drinking glass.

It's Macro week.....

and I don't have true macro lens, but my Tamron 28-75 has a macro feature. This shot was hand held and the focus did not fall where I thought it did but I still kinda like it anyway. I did play a bit in PSE and cropped it a bit too, as you can obviously tell from the second picture which is SOOC.