Saturday, February 27, 2010

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Friday, February 26, 2010

Macro - the invisible world (2)



As I promised, I will continue to post more macro images with some explanations.
But before posting the images, here is a link to a review about the lens that I took these macro images with.

And another important link, about macro photography. As you can see, the lightning becomes a very strong issue in Macro photography.
In the coming post I will try to bring some tips for Macro photography that I try in these sessions and some that I learned from others.

And here are the new macro images:




Brown sugar X5- can you believe it?




A cucumber, slice of it X3. As you might notice I used also a backlight


And to the last one for is week:



Just part of a flower X5.

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Macro – the invisible world

This week I got the amazing macro lens of Canon which I dreamt of for long time from my friend Roni Sofer. The Canon Macro Photo MP-E 65mm f/2.8 1-5x Manual Focus Lens for EOS is one of the greatest lenses I have. It magnifies the image 5 times and creates non realistic images.
It depends on what is the purpose for this lens. You can use it for more dramatic macro images like the following fork image.



I used 3 heads with snoot on the side and back light. The magnify ratio was X2. This effect or at least very close to it can be achieved with a macro lens or with regular lens with an extension tube.
The main target for using such lens comes when you want to create an illusion, a surreal image. It could be a well structured leaf that falls from a tree:




Or become a real surreal like this image of Kiwi:




Or this one guesses what it is?



You are right this is the same Kiwi not a plowed field. The different between the two pictures is that I used up light as main light while I tried in the second picture low angle light from the side as main source in order to blow up the surface structure as my friend Jennie suggested.
It is a must lens for all macro photographers and studio owners. The main disadvantage that I can report is it manual focus. I don't consider it as serious disadvantage because most of the macro photography must be focused manually. Regarding sharpness, I think it is equal along the magnifying ration from X1 to X5 with slightly deterioration towards the X5. You must take this photo with quality light environment. Especially when you shoot at the X5 ratio. There you really need to use all of your light horses in the studio. No more only good sunlight for macro photography!