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This was a short-lived photography blog I did with Celine Nguyen in 2011.
Palo Alto Airport Day 2011:
Reverse-mount macro of my skin:
Reverse-mount macro is a strange technique where you put your lens on backwards. I use a Fotodiox Macro Reverse Ring with the kit lens. A rear lens cap with the bottom cut out and a UV filter hot glued on protects the lens.
There are numerous issues.
First, manual focus. That wouldn’t be so bad, but…
Second, the depth of field is ludicrously small. To change aperture you have to connect the lens to the camera on aperture-priority mode and remove it while holding the depth-of-field preview button. You can stop down, but then…
Third, it’s very dark. The pictures above are all at ISO 6400, and I think I used a flashlight to add more light.
Tilt-shift
Celine Nguyen and I rented two Canon TS-E 24mm f/3.5L (not mark II) tilt-shift lenses from BorrowLenses for a week.
We didn’t really know what we were doing, because apparently the math behind the focal plane stuff is much more complicated than it appears.
We sort-of kind-of made some miniatures:
Everything else
Not enough tings for their own header.
- Yosemite
- Welding
