Solo: Accidents that you wish were intentional
Sometimes I’ll just take pictures of the sun and sky, or stretch my hand out as far as I can and take a picture from some dodgy angle, or mess with my cameras settings as much as possible then snap away. If I were to then say that this has worked for me, I’d be lying. It’s produced some interesting shots, but nothing that great.
This shot however came from a far less contrived accident. I was simply taking a picture, a portrait, and accidentally lined up myself and my friend in the subjects shades. Bam, instant cool. Now this could have been set up, but then I wouldn’t like it so much, it would be far less natural, so unnatural in fact that I’d probably have remembered to keep my eyes open.
Rose between two thorns
Solo: More Macro
I’ve done some macro before, as can be seen here and here, but my camera’s ability to take macro shots has recently been improved.
I haven’t got a shiny new macro lens, because they cost a bomb. What I do have is a £30 attachment, provided for my birthday. The doodad is a dual wide-angle and macro lens converter. It consists of two pieces, each containing lens of particular shapes.
The effect produced when both pieces are being used is to expand the picture that my current lens is capable of capturing. Essentially it lets me fit more in to the picture. The picture is warped slightly, with a slight fisheye effect, because the adapter is essentially a fisheye lens.
When you remove the larger, frontal piece, of the converter you are left with the macro portion. This does exactly the opposite of the combined pieces, it reduces the picture taken. The angle at which light enter the lens becomes much tighter, essentially magnifying the central portion of whatever is in front of the camera. This also allows me to get closer too, as without the converter my lens has a minimum focussing distance, and because of the converter light is able to enter at a tighter angle the camera is able to focus on objects nearer to it. The result is images of far finder detail than my stock lens would normally be able to capture. The downside however is that the depth of field is also reduced, meaning that a thinner slither of the image is in focus, which isn’t always noticeable in macro work.
So without further ado here’s my first proper stab at macro with this converter, expect much more in the near future.
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