>>>>>The Weekly Close Up 7/2009<<<<<

JiminDenver · Feb 22, 2009

Welcome to the Weekly Close Up where up close and personal is the name of the game.

Please post anything shot up close and personal. It doesn't have to be insects or even macro. I love the creativity that you all have shown during the long cold winter months.

It doesn't hav to be Oly gear either, but please let us know what you used to get the shot and if you had to crop to get that FOV

I wont be on for long today, some of us from the Colorado Oly group are meeting at the Butterfly Pavilion at 11 am and I could really use a live bug fix right now. I wont take the 20mm but will take four other set ups. (2 long, 2 short)

Please post in reply to this as will I.

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JiminDenver · Feb 22, 2009

Still nada outside but the vases keep me entertained. All E 3, 50mm, EC 20, SRF-11 RF

Lily parts

orchid

Rose

Something purple, frisa maybe

Butterflies later.

Thanks for looking

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JimB
Bug Whisperer

Member of the Colorado Olympus Group

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LaurieKnight1 · Feb 22, 2009

I still have no bugs! Out looking for the last week I've found nothing but moss and lichen to shoot..

Still it will be spring soon! And mosses can be quite interesting, I was not expecting to find this on a moss plant!

Shot at around 10:1 with E330, OM bellows, Nikon 10x CF Plan microscope objective, STF-22 Twinflash. 59 images in stack. Vertical FOV of around 2mm.

For context this is the whole 'pod' thing which was sticking up from the moss...

Stack of 83 images, same setup as above but minimum bellows extension (for I guess around 5:1).

Apparently this is a 'sporangiophore' which I'm assuming is the moss equivalent of a flower. (As although moss is a plant, it's not a flowering plant).

And a couple more moss stacks.

Moss Leaves

Moss Leaves 2

Another sporangiophore, 'unripe'

All with the same setup.

Dale Treadway · Feb 22, 2009

Both with E-520 + 14-54 .. it was close to -10 F this morning.

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carlvds · Feb 22, 2009

Fabulous! Shows it doesn't have to be bugs everytime.

FYI: I'm negotiating the purchase of a Kaiser copy stand with lighting and all,
what do you think of this as an macro rig?... would it work?
The actual owner cautions me the max vertical step is +- 1mm.

56174264-kaiser-reprozuil-met-verlichting.jpg

LaurieKnight1 said:
I still have no bugs! Out looking for the last week I've found
nothing but moss and lichen to shoot..

Still it will be spring soon! And mosses can be quite interesting, I
was not expecting to find this on a moss plant!

Shot at around 10:1 with E330, OM bellows, Nikon 10x CF Plan
microscope objective, STF-22 Twinflash. 59 images in stack. Vertical
FOV of around 2mm.

For context this is the whole 'pod' thing which was sticking up from
the moss...

Stack of 83 images, same setup as above but minimum bellows extension
(for I guess around 5:1).

Apparently this is a 'sporangiophore' which I'm assuming is the moss
equivalent of a flower. (As although moss is a plant, it's not a
flowering plant).

And a couple more moss stacks.

Moss Leaves

Moss Leaves 2

Another sporangiophore, 'unripe'

All with the same setup.

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tmcfarla · Feb 22, 2009

I've never seen pictures like that, and I have looked through dozens of biology texts and a number of texts devoted specifically to bryophytes. Fantastic! I have been putzing around with my 50 f2 and some $10 chinese macro extension rings trying to get pictures of sporangiophores, but have been really disappointed with the results. You really show what a good photographer can do with the right equipment. Am I correct in assuming that you stack all of the images in order to get a wide dof? How do you stack them, are there programs for that or do you have to do it manually some how?

didin19 · Feb 22, 2009

All shot in February with my e-510 + om 90mm f2 macro
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Martin Davis · Feb 22, 2009

The first is an indoor Valentine rose.

The second could only be called an "ugly duck"

Both taken with the E-520 and the 40/150mm lens.
Martin
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mackj2 · Feb 22, 2009

From this weekend at the Atlanta Botanical Garden...

carizi · Feb 22, 2009

This is as much of a close-up that I could get from this felllow:

mackj2 · Feb 22, 2009

Nice shots..is that a bee in the second picture?

blue72beetle · Feb 22, 2009

Is this small enough?
My first attempt at shooting something small.

-- Andy

LaurieKnight1 · Feb 22, 2009

That would certainly work as the basis for a vertical stacking rig, but you will need to use another device to move the subject up and down if you want high-magnification. Might I suggest a microscope base with the top hacked off - use the microscope stage to mount the specimen and move it up and down with the microscope fine focus controls... (Note I'm currently putting together a vertical rig very similar to this, using a Nkon multiphot copy stand as the basis).

LaurieKnight1 · Feb 22, 2009

Thanks for the kind words! Please see my website http://www.laurieknight.net for more information on how to do the focus stacking...

fldspringer · Feb 22, 2009

50 f2/EC-14 (Highly cropped)

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Private Custard · Feb 22, 2009

Went out yesterday with a friend to a couple of Urbex locations. First an abandoned hospital in Melton and then an old factory complex in Ashby. Got quite a few close-up shots. All with the E3, Sigma 18-50 2.8 and the FL50-R

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robert j · Feb 22, 2009

Bud, taken with E-510 and 70 - 300mm @ 300mm at f6.3.

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JiminDenver · Feb 22, 2009

I met up with fellow Co-0ly member Dave (skylineDave) with a friend of mine at the Butterfly pavillion this morning. We all used a variety of glass on E 3s, a E 30 and a 330.

It was busier than I'm use to seeing it and I ended up bagging the mono pod and going it handheld for the day. A few

Most all shot with the E 3, 35mm, EC 20, and foam ring flash and handheld. More later

Thanks for looking
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JimB
Bug Whisperer

Member of the Colorado Olympus Group

[email protected]

faithblinded · Feb 22, 2009

I'm getting a good jumpstart on my veggies and herbs this year, for once. Meet the Basil Twins! Growing in a peat puck, and shot with the e510 and 35mm macro. This is a 100% crop, just because.

Dave Hanson · Feb 22, 2009

Here's a shot of Jim's setup, which should give you an idea of the working distances he's dealing with.

I'll post a few of my own soon, after I've had a chance to sort through them. Nice to meet you and Zach and swap ideas. Oh, and thanks for letting me borrow the lenses

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