Pepper'N'Salt

Montanawildlives wrote:

Oh great, my "well I'll go take some good pictures when the weather improves" excuse is wearing particularly thin after seeing your pics.

Really cool shots.

Thanks!

You could try combos that match a particular recipe/flavor profile to add some context.

Salt, pepper, and oregano - for pasta sauce.

Fennel seeds, cumin seeds, chili powder, salt, and pepper - for chili.

Just a thought.

A very good thought, I have to say. Thanks for suggesting it! Much appreciated.

Will see what I can do.

Phil

philzucker wrote:

Rodger in Edmonton wrote:

You are on the right path according to my photographic Truppenfuhrung --

Be cautious of too many elements in the field that can obscure the main objective.

In Combined Arms Ops with different color and style of formations,this can lead to the appearance of a busy battlefield buthazy objectives. A decisive target point in the field of view can help the viewer establish the precise goal of the operation.

Overall combined spice operations appear to be proceeding very well across the entire front - carry on =- keep objectives clear in each battle.

Think Austerlitz

If I take an overhead picture - the Pratzen Heights will be the clear subject, if I move my camera a further down from the heights, and do not include the heights, I find masses of engaged troops but its very hard to see Napoleon's master plan - include the heights and the melee at the bottom , the right flank , the left flank etc all make sense in the picture..

Note from GHQ: Those pesky geology mineral formations are giving us trouble any help is appreciated.

Keep up the great work

Best Regards, Rodger
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Thanks so much! That made me smile.

I assume that some clearer structure of the battlefield is in order here ...

I picked the scenes carefully, but have to admit that some additional thinking about picture composition might be a good idea. Have to find out about how to manipulate those tiny condiment heaps to my liking. Some small instruments for that might be the solution.

And I did learn something about Pratzen Heights - just looked it up! Very educational indeed.

Phil

Ha ha

These ones can be among the toughest to get a punchy focal point, the same  circumstances present the photographer in a bed of flowers or other uniform shot.

Sometimes a unique angle of attack can assist or side lighting to highlight structure, there is 1 80 degrees to work .

... Photography is an art a tweezer placed small flower in the spice field is no issue with Photon GHQ. It is not intended as a botanist field guide.

An Amazon  model building kit for $ 20 will have a few tweezers to work with.

Close ups of coins and coin art is another one at your command - there are some way cool coins in your region .

" Creative Macro on FB " is a very interesting place Phil, there are a lot of posts there that are very interesting like yours and a good number can deal with smaller subject matter - - more than a few Raynox Commanders like yourself too.

It is another great source of inspiration.

Perhaps a spice specialty store can help? maybe the have  flowers still attached to be true to the idea and add a natural addition.

I like the thinking and trying different ideas on these threads,

Dann-Oh wrote:

What do you do to control the movement for so many photos in your stack? Im just starting to dabble in macro using my Olympus EM1-3 and either my 30 or 60 mm macro lenses.

The great thing about the Oly cameras (those supporting focus bracketing) in combination with the 30 or 60mm macro lenses is that there is only internal movement in the lens, nothing else. And since only some very small pieces of glass are moved in the lens that can be done veeery quickly (of course depending on the exposure time of the individual shots) and doesn‘t pose too great a challenge for the setup used. A sturdy tripod will do.

Hope that answers your question?

Phil

Dann-Oh wrote:

Are you using in camera stacking or are you using a software to stack your images?

In-camera stacking allows only for a limited number of images, 15 with the OM-1 IIRC. For the magnifications I used here that is not enough - so I used focus bracketing and then Zerene Stacker as external software.

Phil