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[summerkl]

Just starting to play around with macros. Sony Nex with Canon FD 50mm f1.4 and a Life Size Adapter

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[bilzmale]

Spent the other day playing with manual legacy lenses on the E-PL1. Was babysitting the grandkids and they don't sit still making manual lenses a challenge.

The subject matter is unremarkable but was taken with a Soligor 55mm f/2.8 with a 25mm extension tube to give 1:1.

 

[summerkl]

Bill, I have a similar shot of my thumb but it will not sign a consent waiver for public viewing

 

[summerkl]

I'm having fun with macros but my family thinks I'm losing my marbles as I take shots of seemingly inane things.

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[BBW]

Great idea for a thread, Kevin, and if it's any consolation I don't think anyone here thinks you're losing your marbles! This macro world offers up a completely different point of view that many of us might never see. Thank you, Bill, too!

I think this is going to be a longterm thread for sure.

 

[summerkl]

Miss Scarlett in the kitchen with a water drop on the spatula

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[olli]

Great images. Love the Jurassic Clips.

 

[Ray Sachs]

First attempt with the LX5 macro function. Kind of fun...

-Ray

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[BBW]

Ray! Now you've gotten me thinking!

 

[Ray Sachs]

Not sure why, but this photo and a few I posted in another new thread are getting squeezed down to square. They're linked to images that are 1024 x 774, but they're not showing up that way. Any idea what's up?

-Ray

 

[deirdre]

I don't know, Ray. The markup clearly has the following in the img tag: width="1024" height="774"

Looking at it in Safari's web inspector, it's showing that the width is becoming 800px; height is remaining 774. I'll look into it later and see what's up.

 

[BBW]

As I posted on your Longwood series thread, I think it's the black borders. From what I can see you've followed everything perfectly correctly and, thus, I think something about the borders on these photos is doing it. Can you post one in a version w/o the borders to Flicker and try it. I was just on my way over here to look because I saw this one on Flickr and it looks so much crisper and cleaner on Flickr than it does here. Not that it doesn't look good here, too but I immediately noticed the difference, having seen it here first.

P.S. deirdre, I didn't see your post. Thanks for looking into it more, if you are able to. My bet is them borders.

 

[BBW]

OK, it's not the borders. I just attempted to post a normal large size 1024 x 683 photo in the Kitty thread and it became squashed. We'll have to look into this. There must be a glitch somewhere.

 

[Amin Sabet]

I don't know, Ray. The markup clearly has the following in the img tag: width="1024" height="774"

Looking at it in Safari's web inspector, it's showing that the width is becoming 800px; height is remaining 774. I'll look into it later and see what's up.

This must be related to the forum software upgrade I did last night. Working on a fix right now...

 

[BBW]

Thanks, Amin - all is well with the embedded world now.

 

[Ray Sachs]

Turns out I've been having all kinds of internet connection problems for the past several hours as well. Which our cable company just finally acknowledged was on their end. I hope this didn't contribute with these problems in any way. It seems not since you were able to fix them in the forum software. In any case, thanks...

-Ray

 

[summerkl]

This is my son's crystal souvenir from Murano, Italy. It's about half the size of a golf ball. I don't understand the physics - but the different colors of light from different angles is amazing to me.

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Shot with Nex-3 and Canon FD 50mm f1.4 with extension tube.

 

[BBW]

Geodesic domes go macro! Cool, Kevin!

 

[summerkl]

My first true macro lens arrived today - Nikon Micro Nikkor 60mm f2.8 - so off to my studio (aka the kitchen counter) with my trusty NEX

First shot is at f4 with no sharpening but boosted contrast and spot removal (thank you LR3).

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Second shot also at f4 with sharpening and darkening preset applied to isolate the reflection

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[davect01]

It is amazing how the simple and mundane seem to become exciting when taken Macro.