Flower Macro
Amy was out of town at her grandmother’s funeral a couple of weeks ago, and I was going to be at work when she got back, so I bought some flowers at Publix to have on the table when she came home. No sooner had I gotten them home that it occured to me that they might be fun to photograph. Several years ago I picked up some cheapo filter lenses for doing macro stuff. Basically they are magnifying lenses that screw on the front of a normal lens like a filter. They came in a set of 3 (a 1X, a 2X, and a 4X) They don’t have nearly the optical quality of a real macro lens, but they have some rather neat traits that make them fun to play with. If I remember correctly, this is using all three lenses for a total of 7X on top of the 50mm prime lens. For some reason that I don’t really understand, this is my favorite of the bunch from that night. Other than the crop, this is pretty much how it came out of the camera, and it has a cool aged photo look to it that I really like.