Macros – September 2021
/My smartphone, a clip on macro lens, and Bluetooth shutter control were the gear I used for the macro photos feathered in this month’s post. They are all from a short walk in Howard County Conservancy’s Mt Pleasant from the parking area and into the Honors Garden. The set up works very much like the bridge camera (with lens, diffuser, manual focus) in that I must get close to the subject and move the phone to get the focus perfect. It has the advantage of being a lot more compact than the other set up!
The rain from the night before had left everything with a sheen or droplets of water. Often the wet increased the richness of the colors…and the shine. The thin clouds provided good, diffuse light – a good day for smartphone macro photography. The cedar was on my way to honors garden.
The seed pods on the magnolia were not flat enough to be an easy shot! The depth of field is very narrow with magnification.
I experimented with different perspectives of cone flowers
And asters. In the last picture, the depth of field gave me the blurring around the edges than I wanted.
The birds nest fungus was in a mulched area near the parking lot. Some of the cups seem to hold water!
Even grass seeds take on a different perspective in a zoomed image.
…And these are the best of the rest (note the insect hiding inside a flower)!
