Category: Macro Photography

Product Review – GVM 7SM video lights

GVM Double Sided Mini Bi-color/RGB LED video Light, P/N GVM 7SM Usable for both video and still photography. 7 watts Kelvin – 2700 – 6500K, CRI rating of 97 Full spectrum RGB color 0-100% dimmability Packed in a hard case with dense foam separating the components. Thick nylon case with […]

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Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corp. – 28 year retirement watch

I’ve been photographing jewelry recently because all the reflections make it quite difficult so I wanted the challenge. As I was searching for some jewelry to photograph I came upon Dad’s retirement watch from the Wallingford Steel Mill, later to become Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation. It’s about 30 years old […]

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Gold Wedding Rings

  Photographed with a Nikon D7100, 24.3 APS-C camera, and a Nikon 40mm MACRO lens. 1/50th, f8, ISO 100, MANUAL MODE. (4) lights were used.  (2) Floor lights 5600K, (2) small 5600K table LED’s to bring out specular highlights in the jewels. 12 shot focus stack, helicon focus software.

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Diamon and Gold Watch

Gold diamond watch:  Photographed with a Sony A7RII, 42 mp, full frame mirrorless camera and a Sony 90 mm f2.8 MACRO lens. 4 seconds, f11, ISO 100, MANUAL MODE. (1) 5600k flash bounced off the ceiling. 16 shot focus stack, helicon focus software.  

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Flaming feather!

This is a close up shot of a portion of a bird feather. I snipped off the upper portion of the feather and pulled away many of the feathers along the stem to achieve this look. It was photographed in studio setting with studio lighting. I felt that feather mimicked […]

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LED light panel – Abstract Macro

This is a close up shot of a 4″x5″ LED light panel lit with two lights using blue and red gels for color. Photographed with a Sony A7RV, 61mp mirrorless camera and a Sony 90mm MACRO f2.8 G OSS lens. The red you see crawling on top of each bulb […]

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Tip of Flourescent light Macro

/>This is a close up (macro) photograph of the tip of a fluorescent light bulb. I used two lights and colored them with red and yellow gels. Photographed with a Sony A7RV, 61mp mirrorless camera and a Sony Macro 90mm F2.8 G OSS lens. 1/4 sec., f11, ISO 100, MANUAL […]

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Flourescent Light – Abstract Macro

This shot began with a standard fluorescent light bult as seen in the “before” shot. This was photographed in my studio using three lights with various colored gels to give the results shown. Photographed with a Sony A7RV, 61mp mirrorless camera and a Sony 90mm macro, f2.8 G OSS lens. […]

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