Tag: macro
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How to take really bad macro photos?
Make mistakes – it’s the only way to improve This essay is really a memo to myself to remind me of the things I have learnt on my journey to try and yet fail so often, to take good macro photos. My opinion of my macro photos is that I sometimes take photos that rival…
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A tale of two ponds
This essay is about two of our local ponds in France. The 20th century has not been kind to ponds. In both France and Britain, many were drained to create more farmland or filled in to make room for new developments. Some ponds went to waste and others were stuffed full of it! In France and…
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A good Chinese flash diffuser for less money?
Until I discovered how difficult it is to find reviews of some of the more obscure camera accessories, I hadn’t really considered writing them myself. Recently, I decided to buy a flash diffuser. I had done some interesting experiments with homemade ones and some of them worked pretty well. However, there is no denying that…
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Outing to the lakes
This is my first post under ‘Macro’ but it could equally well perhaps have appeared under another of my web-site’s headings (‘Eco’, ‘France’, etc.). It’s about a couple of short trips to find and photograph dragonflies. There are a number of places near Penne and Vaour where one can find many species of these most…
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This is the landing page for petermobbs.com. The main entries are to be found in the blog pages. To access them please click on the button above. The topics covered range from posts on ecology and politics to macro photography, electronics, reviews of photographic gear and living in France.
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Macro – things you can see with the naked eye if you look!
This is a small gallery of pictures mostly taken with either an Olympus EM-1 Mk2 or an OM-1 Mk2 with 60 or 90mm OM macro lenses, a Godox V350o flash and a homemade diffuser. Some images are the results of ‘stacking’ between 5 and 20 images or of other tricks but most are single shots.…