A canvas with mixed acrylic paint. Shot 1:1 using a Vivitar 285 and a make-shift soft box. The specular highlights were very difficult to control because of the various angles, as well as the glossiness of the paint. I love the colors though, so many more attempts in due time.
Close up of my high school class ring cross country emblem shot in studio on chrome. I liked the light on the upper body of the he/she. I shot this with speedo strobes, with the light over top shooting through a diffusion screen with fill cards below reflecting upwards. 4:1 ratio.
The nozzle of a squirt bottle. I have been trying to capture a bit of action in my recent macro set-ups, so I attempted at freezing the water coming out. Therefore, I used a vivitar 285 set on manual, and fill cards for the opposite side. 2:1 ratio.
A matchstick photographed in my apartment using Alien Bee strobes on either side, with gobo's flagging light off of the background. Depth of field was shallow, but I felt the actual flame carried the image. Around 2:1 ratio.
A piece of toenail just after being detached from the toe. A product of Hematoma, which caused the nail to fall off in its own time. This was shot with Alien Bee strobes, and tissue paper as a soft box. 4:1 ratio.
A skull on the bottom of an antique rosary. This was shot with the same camera set up as the below mushroom bead. This time I back lit through a diffusion screen and put a little fill light onto the front. 2:1 ratio.
This is a glass bead I shot for macro. I used the bellows, a 105mm, and an extension tube. Lit with a speedotron strobe from above through a diffusion screen. Lots of fill cards around the sides, and a black gobo for shading the background. This is 2:1 ratio.
My shoelace eye was the subject in this macro photograph. I lit this with two speedotron heads. One hitting a diffusion screen on the left and the other front lighting with a green gel on it. This macro ratio is about 1.8:1.
Another macro photograph, this time of some wooden toothpicks. This was shot with chrome. Huh? Chrome!! Oh.. This was actually really easy to light, I just used a speedotron, pointing it downward onto the scene. The ratio is around 2.85:1, or 2.85 magnification.
This is Aeshna Isosceles, a dragonfly. I shot this lady with the pb-6 and pb-5 bellows, two extension tubes, and a 105 micro lens. I used Speedo strobes and a homemade soft box to light her, while placing green and red reflective paper under her for accent colors.
This was another "first attempt" in the macro scene. The image is of epidermis on the posterior 3rd phalange. I used the PB-6 and PB-5 Bellows and two extension tubes. In all, there was 470 mm of extension and an 85mm lens, creating roughly a 10:1 ratio. The red granules in the skin are hemangioma, or marks caused by blood vessels close to the skin. I used Speedotrons pumped to F/64
This was one of my first attempt shots for our macro-photography course. I used the pb-6 bellows, two extension tubes, and the 105 mm micro lens. In all, there was 280.5 mm of extension. I set up the butterfly with a blue piece of foam board behind, which had white spots on it. I was attempting to have the sky look as if it had clouds in it.Nikon D200 - ISO:100 - F/22 @1/250th
This is a shot of a Black Eyed Susie I did for Large Format portfolio. I attached 3 4x5 Sinar Bellows together to get the macro affect. I used the Farrell strobe to light it and hotlights to focus. Don't ask how long it took to focus 3 bellows.
The above image was shot for large-format portfolio. This was a macro set-up of colored toothpicks stuck in some Styrofoam. The light source was a Farrell light with some minor fill (too small of an object to noticeably accent). I Flügged a lot to show major distortion and fall-off.
