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Archive for the ‘Macro’


The tiniest of details…

…are what make life worth living.
Another quick macro shot, this time from St. Elmo, Colorado:

These flowers are each about 1/4″ in diameter — small enough that I almost stepped on one while we were walking back to our 4×4. I took the picture, at least in part, to remind myself to watch where [...]

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Minty fresh!

A bumblebee works its way through some slender mountain mint:

I took this picture in a park in St. Louis, Missouri. It has a slight case of “green overdose,” but I like the bokeh and am particularly happy at how crisp the bee looks.
I think I’ve finally discovered the secret of good bee photography [...]

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Yellow

Outside the Alaska State Museum in Juneau, Alaska…

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Incoming!

A honeybee heads in for a landing…

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Searching

Another macro image — this time from an outdoor subject, in a park a few blocks from our house…

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Carnation

So I’ve been doing a little tinkering around with my new toys, the Olympus 50mm macro lens and extension tube. So long as you’re careful about some things, it’s a powerful combo. Here’s a macro image I took recently using this combination…

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Macro vs. Macro

So I’ve managed over the past few months to gather up a mangy collection of hardware for my E-510, the purpose of (some of) it being to enable me to make macros. I thought it was about time to pull together some sort of side-by-side comparison of how it all performs….

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Oly 50mm macro — now that’s good bokeh!

As I’ve mentioned, I bought the Olympus 50mm f/2.0 macro lens for my kit a few weeks back. I’m discovering it’s a fantastic piece of glass when you want to draw a viewer’s attention to part of the frame — it gives you a very shallow depth of field (DOF) when it’s wide open, particularly up close. It also gives you really nice bokeh…

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New toys…

As you may have noticed if you’ve looked at the EXIF data in some of my images, I bought some new goodies for the E-510 to play with…

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Light Tent

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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