I just created a macro photo website for some macro photography of mine. Please give reviews on the site and photos. I don’t have a lot now, but I will as time goes on.
Just a little note: At this point I am literally updating ever few minutes, so if you checked 5 minutes ago, there are new photos now.
How about this: create website and put everything on at once before you announce it.
is that a xbox 360 power button?
and actually it looks almost like you were bored so you decided to take a bunch of really close up pictures and post them on the internet, but anyways its more preductive then me
Welcome to the world of closeup! I liked the gum photos best.
Angles are good but you should try to get more of the image in focus, when it’s a large subject, unless your goel is to photograph just one part of the object.
Have you tried using a magnifying glass and your camera’s zoom? If you wanted, that way you can get even closer.
thats pretty sweet…i like the one of the spine of the bible
Yea, the gum ones are by far the best ones 
More photos of arrow heads, gum, and a coin are being uploaded as we type. Here’s my studio - please don’t make fun of it as I spent much time, effort, and money to construct and perfect it. 
And my equipment (1st pic taken by my smelly poopish 2 MP Olympus D-390). The cam is a Fuji Finepix E510, 5.2 MP, 128 XD card, 3.2x optical zoom, manual options for pretty much everthing, and all the bells/whistles:
Gak, I’m going to try a different gallery, it says my “Monthly Upload Limit Reached” my arse.
Here’s the new gallery with NO upload limit. Whew!
that new gum pic is sweet. The gum is almost alive! gasp
tear…there beautiful
agreed. to me, macro photography is interesting when it uncovers detail that one doesn’t normally see in an object. like the textures of a flower petal or the fuzz on the back of an insect or the minute spots of rust in a piece of metal. your pictures are just closeups of objects that don’t have much detail… a keyboard? a page in a book? no matter how close you look at these objects (until you put them under a microscope, perhaps) there isn’t any more detail that pops out… boring!
if anything, continue photographing objects, but only publish those that expose detail or provide fresh perspective. try different angles and different lighting. lighting can make a huge difference in how much detail is exposed in a given “print”. just try and stretch your imagination a little and photograph things that aren’t just sitting around your desk.
Thanks for that advice! I added many new much cooler images that reveal a lot more detail and are at neater perspectives. Check em out - they’re in the back section of the album, obviously. The link is always going to be in my sig…
Pretty good stuff. I’d say before you dive into a much higher quantity of pictures, you should start to categorize them all into sub-groups, so people can look at what might interest them more, in the same way that Cameron Donaldson did.
“Wassup?”
“Eatin’ gum & candy. Takin’ pictures. Uploading. Posting.”
“True.”
I liked the “wood” one. Macro can be fun. The hard part (assuming your subjects hold still) is depth of field and lighting. I saw a nice simple little setup for this on display at Mac World Expo last week. Two curved white plastic things, which you put on either side of your subject, and put lights behind. They give a nice diffused light while not casting the camera’s shadow on your subject. This is often a problem with macro because your camera is right up against the subject.
Looks like you’ve got the depth of field mostly figured out, within the limits of your lens. Smallest aperture possible, unless you want a smaller depth. Then if you want a large range to be in focus, center your focus about a third of the way back along the part you want to be in best focus.
Once I did pictures of a 4-layer microchip for work. I had to learn how to use an extension tube with the closeup lens we had. After much experimenting I found (one of many) focus points that allowed the lens to almost touch the subject, and bring out details I couldn’t see at all with my naked eyes, the thousands of tiny wires connecting the various layers/levels of the chip. I wish I had copies of some of those, but it was all confidential stuff for a prerelease product.
awww, you went to macworld!!
i wanted to go
Tyler,
The photosite.com website does not give an option other than paging through each page in succession. When you mentioned the new photos at the end of the album, I wanted to go there first but it wouldn’t let me. Is there another option to show your photos with more flexibility?
Bruce
I got a free pass, and had a day available. I came away with a heavy bag full of literature, and a cold I’m pretty sure I picked up from the throngs of people in there. I was surprised to meed some people I knew, and even more surprised that they weren’t computer people. They were jugglers!
The two jugglers will remain nameless because they were a little embarrassed by the silliness of their gig, to greet people in the convention center lobby while juggling iPod Nanos with flashing-light accessories plugged into them. Sure it’s great to get paid to juggle iPods, but as a professional entertainer it’s one of those things that’s not likely to make a good addition to your resume.
From Macworld: Intel chips in Powerbooks (mine is now suddenly old) and iMacs, iLife '06 (with iWeb), 250,000 photos in iPhoto, etc. And lots of digital camera stuff. Plus about a third of the vendors selling every form of iPod sleeve/bootie/wallet/holder that you could ever be annoyed by because they only fit the newest ones!