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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Palazzo Vecchio at night
This is a panorama of images I took some months back, but didn’t really get hammered into shape until recently. It’s the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Italy — and the images were taken just after a day-long drizzling rain started to let up…
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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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Diffusers — to DIY, or not to DIY…
As far as I’m aware, all DSLRs have a built-in flash — and from what I can tell, these flashes all pretty much stink. Of course, you’ve got a range of options for dealing with this — depending on how much money you want to spend, and how much additional gear you want to wind up carrying…
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Firepower
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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Pinhead
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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Shorty gets to work with the puschkinia…
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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Meet Shorty
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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