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Abstracts using household straws.
For this shot I used a cluster of multi-colored plastic drinking straws. The shot was lit with studio lights using red and blue gels which overpowered the straws natural colors rendering the image you see. This is an ultra close up of the ends of the straws. I photographed this with a Sony A7RV, 61mp mirrorless camera and a Sony 90mm macro lens. Using Sony’s clear image zoom I was able to triple my focal length to 270mm rendering this magnified result. 3.2 seconds, f16, ISO 100, Manual Mode
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Macro Close Up of Kitchen Whisk
This image began with an everyday kitchen whisk used to mix eggs and the like. I lit one side with a blue light and the other with a red light. I utilized a red/blue gel with the overhead light. I came in as close as possible to the head of the whisk with the macro lens. The resulting image is shown. Photographed with a Sony A7RV, 61mp, mirrorless camera and a Sony 90mm F2.8 MACRO G OSS lens. 1/5th, F8, ISO 100, Manual Mode, (65) image focus stack.
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Macro Close Up of Potatoe Masher
Here’s an example of how you can create art with an everyday kitchen tool. This image began with a potatoe masher as you can see in one of the images. I backlit the object with a blue light, side lit one side with another blue light and the other side with a red light. I then came in tight on the end of the potatoe masher with the lens. The resulting image is shown. Photographed with a Sony A7RV, 61mp, mirrorless camera and a Sony 90mm F2.8 MACRO G OSS lens. 1/4, f8, ISO 100, Manual Mode (55) image focus stack.
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Macro Photography – Whisk
This image was created by using a whisk I found in my kitchen cabinet. Initially photographed without colored lights and it didn’t work so I added blue and red gels. I tried different positions and found the most interesting to be a close up shot of the very end of the whisk. Photographed with a Sony A7RV, 61MP mirrorless camera and a Sony FE 90mm macro lens. 1/5, f8, ISO 100, Manual mode.
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Macro Photography – Potato Masher
Used a simple potato masher I got out of the kitchen cabinet. The shot didn’t work without lighting. So I added blue light coming in from the back, a red light from the left and a blue light from the right. The shot then had some depth and character. I also placed the camera in APS-C mode which gave me extra reach. You can see the before and after pictures attached above. Photographed with a Sony A7RV, 61MP mirrorless camera in APS-C mode. 1/4″, f8, ISO 100, MANUAL MODE Sony FE 90mm F2.8 MACRO at 135mm (APS-C mode)
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Moth resting on a flower.
Caught this moth taking a rest on a beautiful pink flower. Photogaphed with a Nikon D7100, 24.3 MP DSLR and a Nikon 40 mm MACRO lens. ISO 100, F11, 1/125th. MANUAL MODE
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Ant on a pink plant
I happend to catch this ant wandering around a flower. Ants actually do seek nectar from flowers but because they have very little hair so there is no place for pollen to stick on them so they are rather poor pollenators. Photographed with: Nikon D7100, Nikon 40 mm MACRO lens, Nikon SB-400 flash (hand held off camera), tripod mounted. ISO 400, 1/100th, f11, MANUAL MODE.
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Model train meets real world. Train crossing Middlefield CT.
An Atlas model railroad N-Scale, 1:160th, Conrail GP-40 locomotive from the 1970’s with freight cars was photographed in my studio using a Nikon D7100, Nikon 105mm F2.8 lens. The train consisted of 62 images all at various focus points and merged into one final photograph using Helicon Focus Stacking Software. I also photographed the railroad crossing and old building at the Middlefield CT train crossing on West St. Using Photoshop CC 2022 I merged the miniature train image into the real life image of the Middlefield train crossing to create this image.
