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July 17th, 2008
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…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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July 15th, 2008
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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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July 13th, 2008
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Outside the Alaska State Museum in Juneau, Alaska…
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June 29th, 2008
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A honeybee heads in for a landing…
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June 11th, 2008
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Another macro image — this time from an outdoor subject, in a park a few blocks from our house…
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June 9th, 2008
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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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May 28th, 2008
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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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May 26th, 2008
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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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May 22nd, 2008
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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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May 8th, 2008
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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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