Post your critters & plants under the macro lens

[Bernice Loui]

Bernice

[Bernice Loui]

Bernice

[Daniel Unkefer]

Auto Makiflex 21cm f4.5 Heliar 120 6x9 Maki Back 2 by Nokton48, on Flickr

Auto Makiflex 21cm f4.5 Heliar 120 6x9 Maki Back 1 by Nokton48, on Flickr

Auto Makiflex #3 with 21cm f4.5 Auto iris Makiflex Heliar. 1/60 F11 Ilford FP4+ 6x9cm Makina Back ADOX BORAX MQ Developer 8x10 Arista #2 RC print Multigrade developer. Full sun Key Day. Waiting for the Lily in my front garden to fully open up. I am enjoying looking through the 21cm Heliar.

[Heroique]

Waiting for the Lily in my front garden to fully open up. I am enjoying looking through the 21cm Heliar.

Nice b/w florals, an encouraging sign of spring.

How long can I expect a sitter to remain frozen and still be "good?"

Just a brief public service announcement…

Macro shooters often try refrigerating insects to better control them as subjects. It never works well. I just want to discourage anyone who’s tempted by the idea. It’s not only a mean thing to do, but not aesthetically pleasing.

“A good naturalist can spot close-up pictures of refrigerated subjects every time,” says John Shaw in his classic book Closeups in Nature. “Imagine refrigerating your kids until they could not move and then photographing them – surely you could tell that they didn’t look right in the resulting photo.”

Thank you everyone for continuing to be humane!

[GRAYnomad]

Just a brief public service announcement…

Macro shooters often try refrigerating insects to better control them as subjects. It never works well. I just want to discourage anyone who’s tempted by the idea. It’s not only a mean thing to do, but not aesthetically pleasing.

“A good naturalist can spot close-up pictures of refrigerated subjects every time,” says John Shaw in his classic book Closeups in Nature. “Imagine refrigerating your kids until they could not move and then photographing them – surely you could tell that they didn’t look right in the resulting photo.”

Thank you everyone for continuing to be humane!

Yep, only live subjects found in their natural environment for me.

Speaking of which...



He's very alive and fixin' to have a piece of me

[Daniel Unkefer]

HRU Makiflex Std Mic-X 240 f4.5 Tele-Arton by Nokton48, on Flickr

Plaubel Makiflex Standard camera 240mm F5.5 chrome barrel mount Schneider Tele-Arton at F22. One pop of Broncolor Pulso C171 monolight strobe with Broncolor Pulso Beauty Dish. No fill. 8x10 Fuji HR-U XRay film cut into 4x5s straight Microdol-X replenished in a tray development by inspection under custom red light. 4x5 Lisco Regal holder. 8x10 RC Aristo #2 Multigrade dev Omega DII with diffusion Omegalite head.

[Daniel Unkefer]

MINR XRay Test 1 210mm Componon F22 Two Pops C171 by Nokton48, on Flickr

18x24cm Kodak MIN-R Mammography film cut into 4x5s. Sinar Norma Broncolor C171 with Broncolor Pulso Beauty Dish. Two strobe pops with Sinar Norma Shutter, multiple pops are no problem. Schneider chrome Componon lens at F22. Lisco Regal 4x5 film holder. Legacy Mic-X film dev 8 mins at 68F Aristo 8x10 #2 RC print Multigrade dev. This is fun

[Daniel Unkefer]

Auto Maki no 2 150 2.8 Xenotar HRU 1 by Nokton48, on Flickr

"At the local Crystal Palace Conservatory"

Automatic Makiflex #2 150mm F2.8 Xenotar wide-open 1/15 Fuji 8x10 XRay HRU cut down to 4x5 in Graphmatic back StarD tripod. Development 12 minutes 60F straight Mic-X replenished by inspection of shadow values by deep red safelight. 8x10 Arista #2 RC Omega DII 180 Rodagon f22 35 seconds Omegalite diffusion head Multigrade developer

[Tin Can]

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MINR XRay Test 1 210mm Componon F22 Two Pops C171 by Nokton48, on Flickr

18x24cm Kodak MIN-R Mammography film cut into 4x5s. Sinar Norma Broncolor C171 with Broncolor Pulso Beauty Dish. Two strobe pops with Sinar Norma Shutter, multiple pops are no problem. Schneider chrome Componon lens at F22. Lisco Regal 4x5 film holder. Legacy Mic-X film dev 8 mins at 68F Aristo 8x10 #2 RC print Multigrade dev. This is fun

[Daniel Unkefer]

Scan-150208-0001 by Nokton48, on Flickr

Apples in a Bowl.

Plaubel Makiflex, 240mm F5.5 Schneider Tele-Arton, eight seconds at F/16, 9x12cm EFKE PL100 film developed in ADOX-Borax film developer. Scanned on Epson 4490. Lens focused on stem of the apple in the very front.