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
Over the break, I photographed some kitchen interiors that will be used in the showroom of Apex Cabinet Company in Apex, NC. Itwas my first time lighting large interiors on location, so I learned a lot. I used 2 alien bee strobes and 2 broncolor minipuls for the overall light, and then had 2 flashes optically slaved for detailed area illumination. I used a 35mm digital, so it couldn've looked better shot large format, but I was in a hurry.
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
