If you’ve been reading my posts for very long, you might recall that I’ve been tinkering around with a setup for doing macro and closeup photography at home. I started out by buying a 20″ light tent, but found that the lights it came with were pretty anemic. So I augmented the tent with another [...]
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OK, I finally figured out my pinhole photography issues (as I suspected, the hole needed to be smaller). Here’s my contribution to Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day:
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So this was news to me — a week from today (i.e., the 27th of April, 2008) is “Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day.” The idea is to encourage people to take a break from our increasingly technological world, and spend a bit of time taking pictures with a pinhole camera. If all sorts of technically non-adept folks can do this, I figured I’d give it a try as well…
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I’m working hard to do better at my macro photography, but obviously have a ways to go. Here’s a shot I took near La Jolla, California a few weeks back…
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As I mentioned in my last post, I bought an adapter so I could use my old (1979) Zuiko 50mm / f1.8 lens on my E-510. I’d heard that this combination was really bright, and thought that this would help in situations where I wanted to focus attention on a subject using a tight depth of field (i.e., subject in focus with everything in the foreground and background out of focus).
So I put “shorty” on the ‘510, went out in the yard, and practiced on some early (for Colorado) spring flowers…
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Well, I finally found a low-cost way to add a lens to my E-510’s stable — by reworking an old lens. Here’s my old OM-1’s “kit” 50mm / f1.8 lens, now with an adapter so it’ll fit my “four thirds” E-510
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Back to Paris, for this view of the Eiffel Tower late, late at night. With the lights off, the skyglow from Paris’ city lights provides an interesting backdrop, silhouetting the tower nicely…
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So I decided I should try my hand at macro photography. This means, of course, I need a better / more even lighting setup than I currently have (overhead lights & natural light coming in the window by the dining room table). I bought myself a light tent — or, to use its commercial name, a Sunpak eBox studio. I now will subject you to a quick review of how well it works for me (so far)…
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I thought it might be a good idea to start off by letting everybody know a bit about just where I’m “coming from” with this blog. So, here’s a quick treatment of my gear history, in appropriately photographic fashion…
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