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You're exactly right Wendy. The sun was pretty bright and the virgin untouched snow was very bright. I tried a few shots and all had the snow area blown out until one stop under exposed so that's when I figured I'd go for an HDR shot. I went with a three shot stack. -1, 0, +1 to keep from blowing out the snow and retaining the details in the branches and bark on the trunks.
Some macro work with my new macro LED ring light. Taken hand held at 1/50 - f11 - ISO 800 at 50mm with a Kenko 25mm extension tube An EF 50mm f/1.4 USM. This is a small plastic gear from a friends R/C car. This gear is about the size of a nickel.
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7157/6...5d7c57a8_b.jpg
Looks like a great new tool you've got there. It's lit the gear very evenly I think. Nicely captured detail - good job :)
Great detail Rob, very evenly lit, interesting subject, you can even see the greasiness of the gear
well done :)
Thanks Malcolm & Wendy. I was at my friends house while he was working on his R/C car and just started shooting pieces of it as it was dis-assembled all over the table. Took a sheet of printer paper and used it as a background.
Interesting idea Rob. I'm wondering if the macro could give even more detail of the the roughness of the metal in the rupture.
I like it.
Great photo Rob. I'm fast finding that even the most trivial or ordinary items make great works of art using macro:D
I have a few more interesting items that I think I'm going to experiment with on a light table.