How To Photograph A Tower Of Salt Grains
If you thought that building a tower out of salt grains is a hard thing, think how hard it would be to photograph it in a nice way.
Photographer Alex Parker did manage to build a small tower of salt grains and take its picture.
The trick was to use two lenses mounted in reverse to each other. The amazing macro is done by using a 18-50mm f/2.8 lens reversed on top of a 70-200mm f/2.8. This can gain magnification of about X11.Alex explains why there are only two grains:
"I was going to attempt 3, but I only managed to do it once, and it fell over before I could take the shot :< I don't think 3 would fit in the frame, anyway, without going to portrait orientation.#
The small tower was built with some very small tweezers. You can see more of this set here.
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salt
Kinda looks like an electron microscope scan
Shallow depth of field
This reminds me of yet another photography related topic I want to try sometime. One of the links in your linked article has reversing rings for under $10 so this is a cheap one to try.
One humerious aspect of that photo is the shallow depth of field. You can say for that photo the depth of field is literally less than a grain of salt.
photo size (vignette?)
Did photo taken using two-lenses-mounted-in-reverse method by 70-200 combined with 17-50 covered the full picture (without 80% vignette) or just a tiny bit of center of the picture (with vignette which you had to crop to get something like 400x300px photo) ?
No, that was the fully
No, that was the fully composed image. There was no vignetting, and no cropping. However, if you stop the primary lens (In this case, the 70-200) down past about f/4, you start seeing the aperture blades in the image, so it's best to avoid that.
cant seem to get that close
i have a 50, 18-70, 55-200, and 70-300 macro lens and i think ive tried almost every combination of these lenses but i cant seem to get that close. my lenses are by far inferior to what was used to capture this but what can i do to in closer with what i have?
this is some true
this is some true photographic genius. i love the idea
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