Macro Dreams

Contribution for the Macro Dreams challenge: cottonwool Camera details Camera: Sony Xperia Z1 Compact mobile phone F5321 Exposure: 1/32 sec. Aperture: f/2.0 ISO: 400 Focal Length: 4.2 mm (approximately 35 mm equivalent after 1.2 times digital zooming) Lens: Clip-on macro lens (magnifying glass). Editing: Snapseed mobile phone photo editing application. Details enhanced. Lit with two LED torches colored with plastic cups:

Contribution for the Macro Dreams challenge: drop I used my Canon G5, and cropped a lot. Original was 4864x3648 pixels. And from that I cropped this down to 1597 x 2000 pixels. Manual focus first, and then continuous shoot mode to take a number of shots while trying to get the "coffee" into the cup.

Contribution for the Macro Dreams challenge: Spiralsquare Manual focus, and f/9.0 used to get a generous depth of field. Daylight lamp used to lit the Turritellas . Background created with MirrorLab Android app and displayed on the mobile phone screen. See the spoiler on the PiP notice. Tribute to Andreas Feininger , who used to photograph sea shell still life arrangements in studio, shot against projected (or printed?) skies.

Contribution for the Macro Dreams challenge: " Woolen Dogs " 35 mm equivalent 35.0 mm focal length used to give enough wide angle lens view. The Woolen Dog (dust bunnie) is pretty much as close as one can get with this pocket camera. But the overall composition and point of view was the main point. LED torch light used to lit the foreground. Turned to black and white to get rid of the color temperature problems. But also as a tribute to Nipper .

Contribution for the Macro Dreams challenge: drop Learning something new every day. I've been wondering why the water drops seem to form round pearls especially on the oak leaves. I first thought it is because of lotus effect , but then realized it is actually an epicuticular wax as a plant cuticle that really does the job. So, the wax on leaves makes them water repellant.

Contribution for the Macro Dreams challenge: pebbles So hungry " I could eat pebbles ", as says Lauri in the first significant novel in Finnish written by Aleksis Kivi . So, this proverb is very familiar to us Finns. A teaspoon filled with pebbles found around Kristinestad . That small coastal town had a great role in tar export around 17th century. Ships sailed out with barrels of tar as their cargo, and came back with gravel as their ballast. So, stones from the faraway shores and exotic immigrant plants can be found still today around the streets of Kristinestad.

Contribution for the Macro Dreams challenge : Macrofenced

Contribution for the Macro Dreams challenge s: Macrofenced and " Autumn leaves " Contribution for the Happy Fence Friday 2020/11/13 Notice the URL for HFF contribution! That is awesome! One can give a link to one's own contribution on the group page where it appears!

Contribution for the Macro Dreams challenge s: Cottonwool Update 2020/11/13: I replaced the image with a better version. I cropped the image to center the "black sheep", Then I used Snapseed Android app's Healing tool to make the middle of the black sheep look sharper.

Contribution for the Macro Dreams challenge : Brush I used Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ60 to shoot this. Up to 35 mm equivalent focal length, it focuses down to 3 cm distance, which gives a pretty good magnification! =)

Contribution for the Macro Dreams challenge s: Drop and Music ♫ TOM WAITS RECORD CLUB, RAIN DOGS / Singapore + Clap Hands from Clem on Vimeo

Contribution for the Macro Dreams challenge : Kitchen utensil Clip on macro lens attached on front of the 24 mm equivalent phone camera.

Contribution for the Macro Dreams challenge s: kitchen utensil and spiralsquare When buying a new camera phone, I saw an YouTube video giving some promising close up capabilities for the same cameras as used on Sony Xperia 5 II. But that was not the only reason why I chose this phone. A dedicated camera button alone has been my priority number one, when choosing a camera phone. And then there really are not many camera phones available. Today I tried to find out how the close ups seen on that video could have made. I finally decided to choose the 24 mm equivalent lens. Then I tried the digital zoom up to 70 mm equivalent focal length. And finally I chose a manual focus to be sure the camera is focused as close as it physically can. The result is surprisingly good, I think. At least good enough for an amateur photographer like me. Now this amount of magnification is also what is mentioned on Macro Dreams group 'Rules and tips' discussion topic . The image is macro enough when the subject viewed on standard "matchbox" size camera display looks as big as it really is.

Contribution for the Macro Dreams challenge s: kitchen utensil And retired because of the modern "technology" =D

Contribution for the Macro Dreams challenge s: spectacles in sepia

Contribution for the Macro Dreams challenge s: spectacles in sepia

Contribution for the Macro Dreams challenge : "Eye of a needle" A large darning needle. Size of the eye approximately 1 cm. I used clip on "macro lens", on a 24 mm equivalent mobile phone camera.

Contribution for the Macro Dreams challenge : "Eye of a needle"