The things we eat…
I still don’t have a new tele zoom so I’m still experimenting with my trusted 60 mm macro – along with a couple of Kenko extension tubes. Today my target was (among other things) water melon.
For this first photo I had a 36 mm extension tube between the macro lens and the camera. The light came from the normal kitchen lights (therefore the weird white balance) – but in addition to them I lit the melon from below: The slice was on a glass plate which in turn was on a tall juice glass. In the glass there was a flashlight pointing upwards through the melon (I was photographing straight from above the slice). I wanted a stronger effect from the light but the battery must’ve been a bit weak… And again I had some trouble with focusing, due to the lack of contrast but more than that, because of the shallow dof, caused by the macro-extension tube combination.
The next one was with the same combination, just a different angle. And not from above but from the side and without the flashlight. I think the seed holes came out pretty nice with the aperture of 10.
For this last one I added another extension tube (12 mm). I really can’t say this looks very delicious…
James wants to know what the bridge on the banner of this website is!
James this bridge is in Espoo, Finland, right next to the main office of the company I work for. The road is called “bear island road” but the bridge I believe is “the bridge of the leaf island”. The place in Google maps is here: Click this.
I took the photo from the fifth floor balcony last autumn when I was working late.
It is too late, this morning James told me the bridge was in Detroit!