Pouring My Art Out

I do have a correction to make. In the last post in this series, in which I am playing around with macro photography, I said that I had used the smallest of the macro lens spacers. The 20mm is not, it turns out, the smallest one.

These photos are taken with the smallest one… the 12mm.

I am still not sure which of the three sizes take the best close up macro photos.

Or if it is possible to take photos just like these with the correct distancing of the camera with a regular or zoom lens…

But I know I love these photos.

I am still planning on taking some macro photos of stuff around the house and garden, and then cropping them down to one very small area, and turning it into a game where you have to guess what the photos are of.

I might also take the macro lenses down to that pavilion in Balboa Park in San Diego, and take some macro pictures of those crazy-beautiful orchids they grow there.

Who doesn’t want to get up close and personal with some orchid sexy bits?

I do also agree with my older daughter, who says that most of these photos seem a little on the dark side. Sticking the lens right up against stuff tends to cut off the light source. Yes, I can lighten them up in Photoshop, but for now, I am just getting used to the macro lens spacer thingies.

These are all pictures of that ‘fire bowl’ I made in my glass blowing class.

I am still playing around with those macro lens filters loaned to me by my son-in-law, which, I remind you, don’t have lenses in them, they just move the lens inside your camera and the one on the regular attachment further apart. I am trying to figure out which size macro lens… or non-lens… is my favorite.

I took all these with the 36 mm one, which is the biggest. Tomorrow, I will try one of the other ones again. I have three sizes.

I didn’t use any artistic digital filters on any of these images. Fell free to guess what they are photos of.

I am still learning stuff… like the fact that if there is any dust or dirt on the object you are taking photos of, you can see it all.

And you do have to manually adjust your focus. No auto focus with macro photography.

I think I am getting better. These are at least as good as the flower pictures I started off with… except for the dirt, I mean.

The problem is, I dusted the outside of the object in question, but then took some shots of the inside, near the top… which I didn’t dust. I do love the tiny bubbles though!

Imperfections and all, the world, when viewed close up, is a magical place.

If you guessed that these were all photos of that first vase I made at my glass blowing class, you win a free, all expense paid visit… to my blog.