I'm not claiming to be an expert on photography, this is just something I picked up on the internet somewhere and I thought I would give it a try. I took my 50 mm 1.8 lens and converted it into sort of a macro lens just by turning it around.
For this experiment I wanted to take a photo of my wedding rings (aren't they just beautiful, my husband did good). Here is as close to my rings as I could get with my 50 mm on my camera.
No cropping to the photo, I just did a clean edit and sharpened a little.
I took the lens off, turned it around, held the camera with my right hand and lens with my left, and made sure to push the little lever that keeps the aperture closed so it would stay open. You have to have the camera on manual mode or the camera won't let you take the photo (I like to shoot in aperture priority, so that's I how I found out about that). Get as close to the object as you can and move the camera around till you find the sweet spot where you want the lens to focus on. I wanted to focus on my beautiful shiny diamond.
Again no cropping, just a clean edit and had to brighten quite a bit because I closed the aperture a touch to get the diamond more in focus, so the photo was pretty dark.
It was nice, but I wanted more oomph. So I converted to B&W, did some minor cloning of some imperfections, slight burning of the shadows to give more dimension, sharpened my diamond more, and added a slight pink layer to give a little color.
Shine bright like a diamond!
silver/treasure
I've been a little busy these past few days and getting a little behind on editing my project 365. And I really need to upgrade my Flickr, so much to do! And I'm really lazy, so, this is not good.
On another note, time for some photo challenges, have I ever told you how much I love photo challenges! Most of these shots are for my 365 because I don't want to edit more pics right now than I have to, so you will see these shots tomorrow. Just warning ya.
This picture represents true happiness. Happiness for my little girl because mommy actually bundled her up and took her out for the little snow storm we had on Monday. Happiness for mommy for being able to stay at home and take pictures of my girl playing and having fun in the snow. I just love how you can see her face actually light up at watching the snowflakes falling down.
Oh, and I was picked for Top 5 last week for the Simplicity photo challenge "food", so if you could send me a vote here, that would be great!
Circles
Watching daddy playing soccer. Not the best picture in the world, but I love it just the same.
I took this macro shot during the Monday snowstorm while my kid was throwing her 56th handful of snow in the air. I did a nice clean edit to it in Picnik, but I didn't want to mess with it too much because I was starting to lose the details of the snow and the leaf.
See you tomorrow for my project 365!
