Tuesday, October 5, 2010 at 9:19PM Remember these angels from the Bokeh shots? It is about 2 1/2 inches wide by 1 1/2 inches tall..
The gummy vitamins in deep discussion..
A close look at Mahabaleshwar channa..
A violet flower (actually this is a bunch of buds, the flowers are almost white)... will have to wait for it to bloom tomorrow.
and almost got the bee....
Practice makes perfect. .
There will be lot of practice!
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Monday, October 4, 2010 at 9:30PM There is only one thing worse than a kid in a candy store, and that is me with a macro...
The hibiscus that was all rolled up was nicely open today..
There is a delicate optimization between a swaying hibiscus and the depth of focus, which happens to be only a few millimeters or less with the macro. Either one has to hold the flower with one hand and take the shot with the other hand or tape the stem against a wall and use a tripod! (as in below picture).
Tulasi (holy basil).. just the tip swaying in the breeze.. Did you know that the basil is so complicated?
San's favorite hanging bird string from India..
and a beetle of some kind which produced some amazement to us this evening...
Somehow, knew deep down, that this wouldn't wait for thursday.
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canon, macro, macro lens, photoblog, photography Sunday, October 3, 2010 at 9:44PM The front yard, the backyard, the kids, the laptop.. every little thing was looked through fresh eyes.. lens + eyes that is and here are some results.
Rosemary bud..(actual size is about little one's pinkie nail!)
It is very difficult to take pictures of moving subjects where you are taking pictures so close at this magnification. Was trying to follow this bee for a good five minutes and all I got was this! More manuals have to be studied before the bee can be captured up close. There is also the fear of getting stung!
The hibiscus bud was still enough to be captured..
This one is a magnolia. Never knew this bud was this hairy!
Was inches from this rose.. practically touching it and still got a picture!
A red geranium bud from our front yard..
To capture my joy at this you have to realize what scales we are talking about .. this is a photo to show you size reference..
Now for my favorite subjects who posed for me so well.. especially when the camera was inches from their face and they had to stay still.. very very still!
and the earings! Never knew we could do a focus so sharp on an area so small and leave everything blurred. (please note, I have got this effect with the 18-200 set to 200mm when focusing on birds 20 feet away. This though is increrideeblllllllle!
The adventure with the lens will continue after thursday!
For now it is back to work and a busy three days.
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50mm, EOS 400D, canon, close, close ups, macro, macro lens, photoblog, photography Saturday, October 2, 2010 at 11:12PM A new addition to the camera bag this weekend!!!
The Cannon 50 mm Macro lens. A Metal body lens with .5x Magnification and a very crisp focus and goes down to f 2.5! Was a little out of my price range (~300 bucks) for a long time but recent events with health and mental state have made me realize that sometimes this life is too short for holding off on some little "aasais"..
Have taken only 10 or so shots with it this evening and I am still learning to do a good job on the manual focus and the results are very very nice. All these three photos were only cropped and bordered from the originals.
It also seems to be very nice as a generic prime lens..
Now thinking that I should go for an eye check up tomorrow. Maybe it is time to wear reading glasses?!
50mm, canon, lens, macro, macro lens, photoblog, photography Tuesday, September 28, 2010 at 9:25PM The crows (காக்கா) are gone and the squirrels (அணில்) are in..
A young family (dad, mom, 3 babies) are everywhere in our backyard.
Was sick last two days. Was either sleeping or throwing up yesterday. Finally after multiple hospital visits, CT scans the solution was to reboot me instead of putting me in hibernate mode.
A few painkillers and sedatives that had me knocked out for a few hours this afternoon and voila all lightning strikes and flickering lights inside the head were gone.
Going to take it easy for a few days and that means less blogging, less staring at this monitor...
When I woke up this evening and starred out of the window, this is the sight that greeted me! An invasion of Anil's!
The babies were unsupervised and they came close to us and they have not figured out yet that they have to run when the USM motor in the zoom moves!
In other news, the eyes and brain have to be in tip top shape for Friday night!
We have tickets to go see superstar on the big screen!
Until then...
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