It's About The Little Things - Macro Photography

Jazz hands of a coniferous tree outside the school

Little Purple Daisies that live in our front garden

Tiny Plant Fuzz People hanging out on the school's wall

Crispy fallen leaf feeling pretty in my hand

Mossy Brick Glue

Fingertips

The wonderfully green eyes of my little sister

A Dramatic Guitar Headshot

A deceased fish's escapades though file folders

Some sort of photoroom contraption

I like this project. It was interesting to see how my different lenses fared differently; I have a 50mm 1.8 prime lens, but - contrary to what I thought - it was usually less effective at capturing things up close than my 18-55 zoom lens. (Though most of the above pictures were shot with the prime.) It was an interesting discovery. My mum has a lens extension that doubles everything, so- I stole borrowed it - instead of putting that on the zoom lens, I held it flipped around. This gave me room to move in closer to things - this is something I'm planning on experimenting with in the future. All in all, this was an easy project for me, mostly because I already like zooming. Yes. Good things are good. 

Photogram

These images are of photograms. A photogram is the result of leaving different objects on top of a piece of photo paper and left under light for different intervals. Many people opted to use actual objects for this, but I chose to utilize torn pieces of towel roll. 

Honestly, I'm not really sure what I was going for here. In the positive version of this (the bottom one), I can sort of see the kind of map that you look at when you are trying to see how tall the mountain ranges are. I prefer the negative version of this, however, mostly because it looks more friendly. 

There is so much you can do with photograms, and I'm excited to do some more eventually. Once you get the idea, all you can think about is different ways to stack things on your paper. I'll take a whack at this again sometime. Yes. It's nifty. 

Outside Pinhole Attempt

Compared to the inside pinhole photo, the outside one was much less successful. It took three different attempts to even get this photo! The first time it was too dark, the second time it was too bright, and then this one happened. Alas, I just couldn't get the lighting right. However, I think this looks pleasantly interesting. It's like an ultrasound of the outside world. 

I'll take that. 

Myself as Seen Through a Pinhole

The idea that a photograph can be taken through a hole in a can is sort of mind boggling to me. But, here is the proof! This is a me as I was for two minutes and thirty six seconds, sitting in front of a little can in the photo room. 

That's just so rad.
The above photo is the print as it looked when it was first developed, and the photo below is the inverted version of it. There are little squigglies floating around. At first I was bothered by them, but now I sorta like it. It adds to the overall feel. 

Pinholes, man.
I dig.