The exciting but cheesy macro flower competition !

DaireQuinlan

As promised. I'll get the ball rolling with one I've had hanging around for a while. However I -did- spend this-morning rocking backward and forward on my heels trying to focus on an ant's ass* with my lens mounted backward on my camera so expect my astonising evocative winning entry when I get 'round to developing the roll and scanning it in :-)

*the ant was in a dandelion so it's in the remit

The devil is in the details

311

Thats not an ant ,its a flant .it's got wings:D

bullpost

Here's one from the weekend....
bflowerapril.jpg

sineadw

Ah they're not cheesy at all! I like them!

How about this one - way off focus I know and I was just messing about, but I actually shouted at the monitor when it loaded up. I couldn't have got the vaseline lens thing going if I'd been trying :rolleyes: This is an extra mature stilton of a shot.



I got some quite good stuff out my garden yesterday - my apple trees have finally decided to blossom - but I haven't taken them off the camera yet.

elven

Woah, you're right about the vaseline! Love that green in the bottom right there too.

I can't believe you have pictures on your camera that you haven't downloaded yet :eek: I could barely wait to get home and plug the thing in, when I got it.

Here's my softer than soft focus contender, with some lovely pastel colour thrown in for good measure:

Fenster

Am I the only person who keeps his camera empty, "just in case"?

Calina

I don't do the flower thing too often, but does this count?


http://www.flickr.com/photos/windsandbreezes/174745359

Cos if it doesn't that's me out. I think it's the top of a hyacinth or something similar. Lousy with plants, me.

Fenster

5uspect

Mmm, here is an old one from last summer that I took with the 18-55 kit lens.

CrowdedHouse

Tulip Saturday morning

Spyral

The quality is not good (wanted to keep file size down for uplaoding )

heres one from when I first got my digi cam;

DaireQuinlan

Fenster, is that the new 30d ? I have to admit I am absolutely blown away by the definition and the colour in that picture ... not a big fan of the out of focus bits though. Can't quite put a finger on why. Is the flickr link not working ? I'd love to see it large.

-edit- oh right , there's an errant 'i' stuck at the end of the URI that has to be removed -edit-

Borderfox

Great shot fenster, really like that

positron

Here's my effort - 400D & nifty at f4.

PaulieC

does this count? It's not exactly macro, but....

thebaz

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thebaz/462098520/

Not sure i'd have the patience or talent for micro photography, but i do plan going to the botanic gardens , when i get a chance.

Huggy Bear

Taken with EF-S 60mm Macro

& it's my first post of any image :eek:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/darahughes/462616562

CraggyIslander

Cracking shots every single one of them.

I spent some time with an apple blossom tree last night (that doesnt really sound right does it?) Have some PS'ing to do this eve and I'll post it here.

GristlyEnd

One of my efforts from the Botanics.

redrob13

I don't do the flower shots very often, but every once in a while something catches my eye ... this may be cheesy, I'm not sure that it really counts as macro, but it is a flower

Shiny

Here is my first attempt :



Wasp face thing.No crop.
Focus was feic'n hard.

sineadw

Oooo thats cool shiny! How'd you get that?

Spyral

Here is my first attempt

liar :P

seriously its really good !! you could work for the royal entomological society !

DaireQuinlan

My latest effort ...
Bit disappointed with reala, first time out shooting with it, its a good bit grainier than I'd anticipated. Maybe its time to drag a roll of velvia out a-macroing !

bullpost

What about this one...

Shiny

I taped to lens's together and strapped the camera
onto my tripod facing vertical downwards and took
many many shots before i managed to get one
in anywhere near focus.

Once I was focusing correctly I took 5 shots with
each shot focused a little differently to the other
and used mask's in CS3 to maintain the parts of
the head that were correctly focused and then
hide the parts out of focus.

thebaz

Shiny wrote:

took many many shots before i managed to get one
in anywhere near focus.

.

oh .. i thought it was you first attempt

so you had some practice, it tells, great shot

DaireQuinlan

Shiny wrote:

I taped to lens's together and strapped the camera
onto my tripod facing vertical downwards and took
many many shots before i managed to get one
in anywhere near focus.

Once I was focusing correctly I took 5 shots with
each shot focused a little differently to the other
and used mask's in CS3 to maintain the parts of
the head that were correctly focused and then
hide the parts out of focus.

Ouch ! Thats some involved procedure. So you taped the two lenses together front element to front element ? I was wondering how you got the magnification . The DOF must be razor thin with a setup like that :-) Great picture in the end though !.

What puzzles me is how you got that ole wasp to sit still for all that ...

CraggyIslander

shiny, did you clobber that poor wasp :eek:

Anyway here's my entry.. the appleblossom:

Shiny

Fred C. Dobbs wrote:

shiny, did you clobber that poor wasp :eek:

Nope.
My girlfriend did. She threw him out the bedroom window.
Then a few days later after i was sick of looking at pollen
flower stuff i went outside to find the little bugger.

Thats why his eye is cracked and one antenna is missing!

magicbastarder

is shiny a bloke?

Shiny

yep

Do I come accross as female?:o

magicbastarder

this is the third forum i've come across with a user called shiny, and the previous two were women. i kinda just assumed...

PaulieC

I thought the Shanephelan in the sig gave it away

arif

hi i am new