Fun with a Macro Lens and a Ring Flash, Oct 23 2011

Leif Norman

When you are a bit bored with regular camera shenanigans,

macro photography makes the world come alive again.

No advice for what to do when you get bored of macro photography.

Maybe a scanning electron microscope?

A 100mm Canon f2.8 lens and a ring flash can make anything seem awesome!
Canon 100mm macro Lens f2.8 USM

 

Marble edged paper from my Encyclopedia Americana

 

Clear Push Pin

 

Fake Flowers

 

Chocolate chunk!

 

The hammer head

 

My bathroom bolt

 

Little ceramic kitty

 

Russian ADANAC stopwatch. No batteries here!

 

Canadian nickel 2001

 

Oreo Cookie Macro photo

 

Macro knitting

 

Macro of a cyanotype on Cotton fabric

 

Thermometer in Celsius, Fahrenheit, and Rankine

 

Macro ringflash eyeball

 

My rug looks much more interesting close up

 

70's fabric close up

 

Strawberry with 68mm of extension tubes and 100mm macro. This is as close as it gets.

 

Without the extension tubes this is as close as the 100mm lens gets

 

Macro strawberry. Not nearly as close as we can get

 

Ring flash and macro lens equals awesome soup photo

 

Macro of old dentist drill

 

Super close up of a Degu

 

120 year old map of Manitoba. Close up of Winnipeg

 

Zeiss Ikon Contina macro

 

old photo book

 

my apartment has steam hot water heat

 

At f32 you get more depth of field

 

even at f11 the 100mm macro lens has a narrow range of focus