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02-04-2008, 02:17 AM
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Leukeh's Macro + Still Life
Start off with some still life...
Some photos I really enjoyed taking - Mucking around with food dye and water in wine glasses. Lots of fun. Some of you guys might have seen a couple of these already... Blue  Green  Yellow 1  Yellow 2 V for Vendetta...?  This one was really odd. I took it and posted it on the old Concept Art forums and someone pointed out the Guy Fawkes mask in the right wine glass and the V shape in the middle glass. Weird huh? I think all of these shots could have been done better if I had the right equipment to do them... 
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02-04-2008, 03:04 AM
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These ones were also heaps of fun - some of these photos were done by reflecting sunlight onto the lilies from a CD, which got the rainbow effect. I also mixed a bit of blue food dye with water and put it in a spray bottle and sprayed it on, which also looked pretty cool.
Rainbow Lily 1  Rainbow Lily 2  Rainbow Lily 3  Rainbow Lily 4  Rainbow Lily 5  Lily 1  Lily 2  Lily 3  Lily 4  Lily 5 
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02-04-2008, 03:33 AM
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I like Rainbow Lilly 2 a lot.
That's cool how you got the colors :] I like em a lot. The macro onse of the water drops are a bit too blurry for me though.
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02-04-2008, 03:43 AM
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Thanks! =)
Yeah, that's the problem with not having a macro lens... I'll probably try the same technique when I get one, but that won't be for a while yet.
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02-04-2008, 04:11 AM
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Holy shit. Excuse my language....
I'm gonna have to try that one day. Rainbow Lily 5 and Lily 1-3 are really eyecatching.
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02-05-2008, 06:41 AM
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Rainbow Lily 2, Rainbow Lily 3, 4 (may be a little crop), 5....
Lily 1, 2, 3. What colors !!!! Impossible to choose one of them !!!! Very well done, very efficace !!!
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02-05-2008, 07:50 AM
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trippy colors man.
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02-13-2008, 02:09 AM
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Some more pics, lots of flowers. They're easy to make look good =P
#1  #2  #3  The green in the one is a reflection off the green wrapper the flower was wrapped in! Thought it looked cool... #4  #5  #6  #7  #8  #9 
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02-13-2008, 03:37 AM
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1,3,5 and 9 are a little blurry. Like I know what you're trying to focus on, but it's not really being focused on. Make sense?
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02-13-2008, 04:05 AM
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Yeah, 1, 3 and 5 was unintentional. Kind of annoyed because I really liked the composition of them. 9 is supposed to be blurred a little.
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02-13-2008, 04:20 AM
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Ya I dig the compositions :]
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02-13-2008, 08:16 PM
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what set up are you using for these?
ie lens, fstop, flash etc?
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02-13-2008, 10:37 PM
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The extreme close-ups are all done with my EFS 18-55m + extension tubes. Which means manual focus and no aperture control. Flash is just the standard one that's on my 400D - I don't have any lighting equipment yet. The problems with being a student = cheap or no equipment =P
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02-13-2008, 11:09 PM
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Nice!
You have very creative ideas, I really enjoyed the lily experiments. Also the reflections in the waterdrops in your last picture dump look great. My favourite is #3 - it's a very nice composition and the colors are so vivid. In #9, I think it wouldn't hurt if at least a very small part would be sharp - but the composition is very nice, and I ike it a lot, too.
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02-14-2008, 12:26 AM
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02-14-2008, 07:43 AM
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The rainbow lilies. omg. i think i'm going to have to do that idea with the cd.
can't wait to see more of your amazing work
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02-17-2008, 09:31 PM
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Very nice work! I live the lillies, kudos for the creative use of a CD.
one of the positive things about not having the money for the right equipment means you have to be ingenuitive with what you have. buy a spotlight at lowes for 20 bucks, then make a small softbox with those Styrofoam disposable coolers. Use PVC pipe to build a frame and stretch a white bedsheet across it. the closer the have the spotlight to the bedsheet, the less diffusion, and vice versa. You can do alot with a little money. =) I love the composition of #9, #8 might benefit from a different angle. beautiful work
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03-10-2008, 12:33 PM
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I bought some fantastic little creatures today... they're called "Macleay's Spectres", aka leaf insects... here's what they look like:
http://godofinsects.com/images/specimens/12_2.jpg http://www.sainverts.com/ETjuvepair3...pair3-full.jpg I can't wait till I get some time to take my own shots of them... or until I get my macro lens! (Not for ages... tax return is a while away yet!) How funky do they look though?! Should I put them in pets or macro? >_>
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03-10-2008, 06:12 PM
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Put them in both!
 I bloody LOVE those lillies Theyre absolutely aamazing, seriously. I couldn't stop staring at them for ages. xD Brilliant work (:
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03-12-2008, 12:58 PM
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Got around to getting a few shots... nothing too special, not really going to try until I get a proper macro lens. The super close-ups were a result of flipping my lens around.
Macleay's Spectre #1  Macleay's Spectre #2  Macleay's Spectre #3  Macleay's Spectre #4 
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03-13-2008, 11:08 AM
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Yeah I'm a bit lazy... I've run out of lens-cleaning stuff... must get some more soon...
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03-13-2008, 11:06 PM
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What is that thing?
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03-13-2008, 11:14 PM
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leaf insects, amazing creatures! Very nice shots - I like the last one best. Looking forwards to seeing more!
I hope you'll have a lot of fun with them! just take care that you have them in a terrarium that you can close well when they begin spawing - a friend of mine had hundreds of them crawling around everywhere in her flat because she kept them in an open terrarium (because the old ones would never leave their leaves - the youngsters obviously had different habits :S)
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03-14-2008, 06:18 AM
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Yeah apparently they're just like large ants... and run just as fast! I can't wait till I do =P I won't keep very many though...
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Hmm, maybe more space at the top and the right to offset it a bit?
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