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These are my 5 Final Macro Images. I stuck to my green theme and achieved to produce a series of images which I planned beforehand. 

I put my images in a collage and I also put them in the order which I preferred. I chose to put the first image on top as it is a manmade man-made object. The rest are all natural things. In addition, the first 3 images are shot in the Studio and the last 2 are shot on location.

I am quite pleased with my final images and the way I have organised them. It took a while to get some images but in the end I managed to capture them all!

I have decided to shoot a green coloured theme for my final series of images for macro. I’ve thought of a good mixture of natural and man-made things so that my series of images are quite diverse. 

I’ve researched some images that I would like to emulate and try to work with below. 

Date: I will shoot my images over the course of 2-3 weeks in the College studio and on Location.

I took inspiration from this image and want to try and emulate something similar. I will either use a snoot or a soft box along with a black background. I will also add water droplets to the apple to so that it looks interesting as this image.

This Image caught my eye and I would like to recreate this image but with a few changes. Firstly, I want to use green pencils only and maybe not as many as in this image. Secondly, I will use a white background and set them up the same way they are in the image below. Finally, I felt that the lighting here was a bit too harsh so maybe I will use a softer light source for my image.

I will be shooting a leaf and capturing its details quite close, much like the image I’ve chosen and of course it will be green unlike the one in the image. I’m not sure of what lighting source I will use or if I will use natural or artificial light yet.

This will be quite hard to achieve but I would like to give it a go. I will have to get in much closer and I’m not sure if enough light would be let through for me to take a shot of the grass as it will be quite close up. I will also make use of a tripod as it will be shot outside and my images could get shaky.

Finally, I will shoot a green plant. It comes under the same category as the leaf but it will be shot differently and I will not give as much detail as the leaf.

These image were taken on a Canon 70D with a kit lens attached to an extension tube. As you can see the first image is pretty dull as a lot of light is blocked due to the lack of distance between my camera and my prop whereas in the second image, I have added the fibre optics tubes. I was amazed with the results of adding artificial light onto my subject as it is not the same as having natural light. My Image instantly became more interesting and there was enough light for me to use which meant I did not need it boost the ISO or change the shutter speed to let more light in.

Image taken with Extension Tube:

Image taken with Extension Tube and Fibre Optics Tubes:

A Macro Lens is designed to photograoh small objects within close distance. Macro lenses can focus much nearer than normal lenses which allows to capture more detail. Some people may confuse zoom lenses with macro. However, there is a huge difference.

This is an Adjustable Platform which can be quite helpful in bringing the object/subject closer to the camera by placing it on top of it in order to get in closer to the lens without having to move the position of the camera.

This is called an Extension Tube. This comes in handy when you don't have a macro lens. The extension tube is put on the camera and the kit lens after it. This now becomes a macro lens. Of course it won't have the same quality/results as a macro lens but it gives you the means to take images without having one.

These are Fibre Optic Tubes which can be used when taking macro images. As a lot of light is blocked when you are very close to a subject, this can help to illuminate the subject and give you options on where to place the light. There are loads of other light sources to use for macro photography. Another example would be a Macro Ring Flash. This would be taken in use when doing extreme macro photography and as a photographer you would want it to be quite good and professional

This is a Bellows. This allows a camera and a lens to be moved further away from each other to the focal plane for focusing. There are two types of of these. Bag Bellows and Accordian Bellows. This is an accordian bellows. Bag bellows are used with lenses that have short focal length and vice versa. This is another way to get around macro photography.

A Reversing Ring is a small metal ring which is mounted onto the camera and is used to attach the reversed side of a kit lens which then creates a reversed Macro lens and magnifies everything. These are pretty cheap to buy and the results are not too bad.

I used a macro lens to make small objects appear bigger. It was quite interesting as I have never done anything like this before and the results were great. It was also very hard to shoot handheld as the images were turning out to be shaky due to being so close up which is why I used a tripod. 

Contact sheet:

These are my favourite and final images that I have selected:

Today we developed our used of macro equipment and shot images for out final 5 needed for the brief. Today I used a 100mm macro lens, studio lights and a tripod. 

I researched ideas for my brief and came up with the theme of colour, specifically the colour black - Which I brought in some objects and decided to shoot. One of my objects was a vinyl record which I decided to capture the groves in the record which I thought was visually interesting. I used the studio lights to add additional lighting. On the 10mm lens I keep the ratio 1:1 as life size as possible and used a tripod and self timer to reduce camera shake.  

below is one of my images of the vinyl record which I think worked: 

For this task we were asked to research equipment used in macro photography. 

One bit of equipment I used is called an extension tube, this creates more space between the camera sensor and any camera lens, essentially creating a macro lens. When using this I had to go in very close to my object to get a fully in focus image, which meant that my images became dark as I was blocking out most of the light. Here is some image I took :

Because I found my images quite dark I used a fiberoptic light that allowed me to get in very close to my object while thing light on to them. 

Here is some images of the equipment above:

This is an extension tube which fits onto your camera and then lens, which increases the distance from you camera sensor and lens, which makes I your camera able to shoot macro type images. 

This is the fiberoptic light which allowed me to add more lighting into my images as I though they were quite dark. 

Also, above is bellows which also recreate an macro lense/extention tubes. However bellows allow the users to go further in on an object and have more distance between the lens and camera than several extension tubes could. however I was unable to use them as there was not a Nikon camera available, and the bellows did not work correctly.