The set-up: the camera on ultra-low tripod
Fun With Bellows: Macro Photography, Brome, Suffolk - 13th May 2006
There was an interesting article in April's issue of the Pentax User Club magazine about doing "extreme macro" photography using bellows on a digital SLR, and it didn't take long before an original Pentax set appeared on eBay. Thus began a quest over a couple of separate days to seek out tiny things around the house and garden that would be interesting to photograph. However, "outside" was soon abandoned as the extreme close-ups and high magnifications, requiring ultra-fine focus adjustments, mean that the subject needs to be completely still - which wasn't easy on a windy day.
next album: Hard-Fi at Brixton Academy, The BBs, and Ping Pong at The Swan Inn - 15th May 2006
previous album: The BSCC does The Pheasant Hotel, Kelling, Norfolk - 6th May 2006
A BVA glass valve
A detail of a PCB
Close-up of some quartz granite
Work is delayed by a passing thunderstorm
Tiny pine cones on the end of a pine tree
An indicator bulb from a Mark 2 Astra at 3.5 volts
The tip of a purple biro
A bunch of 120-ohm resistors
Lots of small PC screws
Condensation in of a bottle of mineral water
A close-up of the bulb filament
Tiny text on a CD
Pollen on a tiny flower's stamens
The stem of a bindweed
New leaves from a bit of sticky Bindweed
Bubbles in a drink
Bubbles in cranberry juice
A collection of little bubbles in cranberry juice
Miniature surface-mount resistors
Pins from a dead 1.1GHz Intel Celeron processor
Close-up of a special edition UK £2 coin
Mushroom gills
Ants mill around like, er, ants
A housefly
Some kind of beetle on a pane of glass
A tiny unopended flower
A sadly-dead bee
Close up of computer ribbon cable
Wiring at the base of a glass valve
Drops of water on a hairy leaf
Leaf cells
A dandelion seed
Some grass seeds
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The set-up: the camera on ultra-low tripod
The set-up: the camera on ultra-low tripod
A BVA glass valve
A detail of a PCB
Close-up of some quartz granite
Work is delayed by a passing thunderstorm
Tiny pine cones on the end of a pine tree
An indicator bulb from a Mark 2 Astra at 3.5 volts
The tip of a purple biro
A bunch of 120-ohm resistors
Lots of small PC screws
Condensation in of a bottle of mineral water
A close-up of the bulb filament
Tiny text on a CD
Pollen on a tiny flower's stamens
The stem of a bindweed
New leaves from a bit of sticky Bindweed
Bubbles in a drink
Bubbles in cranberry juice
A collection of little bubbles in cranberry juice
Miniature surface-mount resistors
Pins from a dead 1.1GHz Intel Celeron processor
Close-up of a special edition UK £2 coin
Mushroom gills
Ants mill around like, er, ants
A housefly
Some kind of beetle on a pane of glass
A tiny unopended flower
A sadly-dead bee
Close up of computer ribbon cable
Wiring at the base of a glass valve
Drops of water on a hairy leaf
Leaf cells
A dandelion seed
Some grass seeds