I Buy Myself Flowers, Thank You Very Much

& I Shoot Them Myself, Too






(and yes, they really are that yellow. i broke off the rest of the bouquet's flowers for the budding pollen (shown) and dusted it around. and this is extremely rare for a photographer to give out their secrets, but at risk of looking over saturated from photoshop i must confess them.)

shot with a d300 & a 55mm with
an extension tube and pb-6 bellows for a 3:1 macro,
f22 @ 2 seconds

That's a Face!

lauren!



& her lighting skills, not mine

Take Your Best Guess!

these are all macro images, 4:1 or 5:1, so technically micro and way beyond lifesize.
shot on a d200 with a 60mm macro lens, an extension tube, and pb-5 bellows,
and assorted speedatron lights and fill cards. try and guess what they are!

1. a small dental tool with the mirror on one end. you can see three triangle ridges in the shot, across the actual tool there is 19 of them, and the tool is the size of my pinky. i hope that gives you an idea to how close up these are.

2. a coffee bean! the black line on the bottom is actually the ridge that goes across the middle of the coffee bean, although you can't see into it. so it's essentially just a sliver of the middle of it

3. a close up of a yellow shirt, where you cannot see any white thread, or any individual thread at all for that matter.

4. a close up of a block of cascade dishwasher detergent. it was supposed to be brand new, clean, and sterile, too. gross.

All That Glitters Is Not Gold

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Another macro photograph that I just got done shooting a few hours ago in the studio, and i put an orange cloth to the side for a little extra color cast/gelling. These are some fake decorative grapes around a wine bottle lamp Jenn's mom gave me for Christmas. Up close it's all glitter, beads, and other sparkly stuff, although you would never be able to tell from just looking at it normally.


shot on a d200 with a 55mm & extension tube to equal 1:1
f11 @ 6 seconds & iso 100

Bottlecaps

Old beer caps I saw lying around and just shot on a d200 with the 105mm & extension tube for 1:1 macro again. I used two hot lights on either side of the caps for overall light, fill cards below and above for light to come straight down on it and to also surround the edges for (more) even shadows. f22 @ 10 seconds, iso 100

Dunny

one speedotron from the top right coming down on that side of his head, one more on the left side doing the same but had a small gobo to only let 1/2 light on, the third light on the left coming at his face, one more at the bottom by his feet with a gobo blocking most of the light, also had a grid in the top left one and bottom left one. the dunny is really metallic and extremely hard to light, it's like lighting glass with the reflections. had to go a lot of blocking off light with other assorted gobo's and reflectors and fill cards.

nikon d200 camera and nikon f/2.8 24-85mm lens
f/22 @ 1/60th iso400

Macro - first attempt

i just finished shooting these; my first attempt at macro, 1:1, or lifesize.
shot on a canon 5d with the 100mm f/2.8 macro lens at 1:1
f/22 @ 2 seconds 100 iso, lighting set up below

Long Term Portrait

One of our final projects that we worked on the entire semester for our portrait class. Requirements, one hobby, one occupation, one studio. My brother Richie was my model

Jenn Composite

for our digital imaging class, our major project #2 assignment.
we were to shoot our model against a white background, then photoshop them into two other scenic backgrounds we also shot. jenn was nice enough to pose for mine