Is this a "Macro Shot"?
Jan 17, 2013 11:21:23 #
Before you answer you just might want to download and view large.... I know now that Martin is delving into reversed lens that we will be having more discussion on the topic, I am preparing some notes on the subject and kinda thought that I would throw this out as a teaser.
Jan 17, 2013 11:23:25 #
Jan 17, 2013 13:45:26 #
Nice technique.
The strangest part of this image is the inscribed HEXANON AR 57-mm on the lens. That alone is worth documenting. Now everybody will want one!
The strangest part of this image is the inscribed HEXANON AR 57-mm on the lens. That alone is worth documenting. Now everybody will want one!
Jan 17, 2013 15:06:54 #
Nikonian72 wrote:
Poor old lens. When I found it last year while going through my father's old photography stuff, it was growing fungus. I spent the better part of a weekend day cleaning it with every thing that I could think of including bleach. Then I polished it with a lenspen as best I could. There is still some etching from the fungus, but not very much and it seems to work for my purposes. What makes that lens so great is that when you hold it up and look through that front element it is almost like looking through a hollow tube, the rear element is more than 10% larger than a 50mm f/1.4. There is a 100-200 zoom somewhere that is eaten up with fungus for the same camera, damn thing is solid metal and weighs a ton...The strangest part of this image is the inscribed HEXANON AR 57-mm on the lens. That alone is worth documenting. Now everybody will want one!
Jan 17, 2013 15:21:25 #
I am in the market for a manual 50-mm f/1.4 lens to use for stacking on my Nikkor 105G. No rush. I will wait for a good price.
Jan 17, 2013 15:40:54 #
Nice idea for taking numerous subjects. As to what i think, the image could be put together from three separate images: background, flower, & lens, and still get the same effect. If actual then this is a great image.
Jan 17, 2013 16:01:30 #
Reflection in a camera lens, Nice going. That would make a nice advertising piece.
Jan 17, 2013 16:30:06 #
fstop22 wrote:
Is the flower on the other side of lens? Is this technically a "stacked lens" photograph, without lenses actually touching?Reflection in a camera lens, Nice going. That would make a nice advertising piece.
If so, why is the flower image not inverted? Or is the flower image layered into the lens photo via PP?
Jan 17, 2013 16:38:53 #
Macromad wrote:
Nice idea for taking numerous subjects. As to what i think, the image could be put together from three seperate images background, flower lens. and still get the same effect. If actual then this is a great image.
The image is actually two images but not taken the way that you described, it is pretty much the same problem that one encounters in shooting a water drop, to get the refraction in good focus you have to focus on the refraction often losing sharpness on the water drop itself. Two images were taken of the lens without moving the lens or the camera taking the picture of the lens, one was focused on the flower inside the lens, the second pic was taken of the face of the lens.
Here are the original pics I only stored original on the one with the flower so you could see it up close, the other is just the face of the lens.
Jan 17, 2013 16:45:25 #
Nikonian72 wrote:
Stacked lenses do not invert... I just posted the original two pics used to create that image, yes I did cheat just a little as the face of the lens and the flower are at different focus distances.Is the flower on the other side of lens? Is this technically a "stacked lens" photograph, without lenses actually touching?
If so, why is the flower image not inverted? Or is the flower image layered into the lens photo via PP?
If so, why is the flower image not inverted? Or is the flower image layered into the lens photo via PP?
Jan 17, 2013 16:51:41 #
Jan 17, 2013 16:52:36 #
Blurryeyed wrote:
I understand, and appreciate your technique. Based on inverted images through dew drops, logic suggests the same would happen here. But a dew drop is the ultimate "simple lens" (inverting image), where as two compound lens in tandem, re-inverts image to sensor. (I think!)Stacked lenses do not invert... I just posted the original two pics used to create that image, yes I did cheat just a little as the face of the lens and the flower are at different focus distances.
Jan 17, 2013 17:15:08 #
Nikonian72 wrote:
I was thinking that lenses inverted but they don't, just looked at another the right way and same result.I understand, and appreciate your technique. Based on inverted images through dew drops, logic suggests the same would happen here. But a dew drop is the ultimate "simple lens" (inverting image), where as two compound lens in tandem, re-inverts image to sensor. (I think!)
Jan 17, 2013 18:22:03 #
Jan 17, 2013 19:01:34 #
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