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oneofone25
oneofone25 Senior Member • Posts: 1,586
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I am getting requests to do macro work for some of my followers on FB and IG which has been nice....

A recent one was that a woman sent me some sand grains that she and her grandmother had found back when she was a child...and she asked me to photograph them with sand from Bandon, Oregon where I get all my great sand grains from for my shots she enjoys.  Here were the results.  Field of view of each image was about 5mm, being about 3.5x magnification....all three focus stacks of around 100 images.  She was very happy with them and they are going out today to her in the mail.

For each shot I used:

Olympus EM1 Mark 2, MC-20 Teleconverter, 16mm Kenko tube, Olympus 60mm macro lens and Raynox 250.  Stacked in Helicon, Method C

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richj20 Forum Pro • Posts: 10,181
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Sand grains are so beautiful! Nice work.

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EarthMurmurs Regular Member • Posts: 475
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oneofone25 wrote:

These shots are exquisite ! I really love them.
So much so that I jumped in the car, drove down to my local river and collected some sand and seashells to photograph

oneofone25
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EarthMurmurs wrote:

oneofone25 wrote:

These shots are exquisite ! I really love them.
So much so that I jumped in the car, drove down to my local river and collected some sand and seashells to photograph

Wonderful!  I can't get enough of sand grain photography....

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Tivoli Tuesday
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Your sand photos are pretty amazing!  I also liked your shots with the sand in the "molted spider head bowl" in a recent challenge here.

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~ Peter

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oneofone25
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Tivoli Tuesday wrote:

Your sand photos are pretty amazing! I also liked your shots with the sand in the "molted spider head bowl" in a recent challenge here.

I did another of those the other day....thanks!

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Tivoli Tuesday
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Love it!  This is such a cool idea!

The photography is probably difficult enough but my brain can't even compute how a person might possibly manage to place and neatly arrange individual grains of sand into a hollowed out spider "skull".

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jim mij Senior Member • Posts: 1,027
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Amazing shots, I can hardly believe that is just "sand", I'll have to take a magnifying glass down to the local beach

out of curiosity how did you clean it before taking the pics?

Thanks

Jim

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oneofone25
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jim mij wrote:

Amazing shots, I can hardly believe that is just "sand", I'll have to take a magnifying glass down to the local beach

out of curiosity how did you clean it before taking the pics?

Thanks

Jim

No need to clean, these were all as I found them.

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