Still Life and Macro photography

Here is a slideshow I made this week. The music is by the epic Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com).

I really enjoyed taking these images. I placed the flowers in a product cube and snapped away. I used a cheap £5 converter to reverse my 50mm 1.8 lens and create the macro effect on the second half of the images. Considering how cheap the adapter was I was so impressed with the results. Beware anyone thinking of doing this though as when I had finished with the adapter I became aware that it had jammed onto my camera and no matter how much I tried to twist the ring it would not let go of my precious camera. In the end I needed to purchase a jam jar opener, the end result was the adapter was now unusable, and to be fair i don't know how likely I would be to try it on my camera again after the ordeal I want through to remove it in the first place.

I suppose I'll just have to save up and get myself a dedicated macro lens, the 105 2.8f looks rather nice.

Have you tried out DIY macro photography yourself? I'd love to know how you faired. Please leave a comment below in this blog or a link to your blog post on DIY macro photography.

Look forward to reading your thoughts, not psychically.

Gordon

I had an absolute blast at this event. The people where all friendly and approachable. The costumes where amazing and i loved how everyone you spoke to had a story to go along with their costume. I'll let the pictures speak for themselves as my words are failing me.

Video slideshow

Or view the pictures at your leisure and tag yourself on my facebook photography page here http://tinyurl.com/steampunkWM

Images from Abney Parks performance will be up shortly.

Hope you enjoyed those outfits. I'd love you know what you guys dressed up as on Halloween! Let me know in the comments below.

I'll be shooting another Photographer vlog video on the 5th for fireworks night. Focusing on light painting and firework photography. So subscribe to my youtube channel in advance to get notified when it's up.

Stay safe guys!
Gordon C Burns