Project 52 by Rob Douglas

[Rob Douglas]

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.

[Rob Douglas]

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.

[Goldcoastgolfer]

Looks like a great new tool you've got there. It's lit the gear very evenly I think. Nicely captured detail - good job

[Wendy Stanford]

Great detail Rob, very evenly lit, interesting subject, you can even see the greasiness of the gear
well done

[Rob Douglas]

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.

[dulceza]

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.

[kezmal]

Great photo Rob. I'm fast finding that even the most trivial or ordinary items make great works of art using macro

[Rob Douglas]

I have a few more interesting items that I think I'm going to experiment with on a light table.