Macro Cliché

I realise this is the first thing everybody does when they start playing with macro but I figured that as long as I don't repeat myself within the blog then it's fair game.

If you hadn't already guessed, it's a droplet of water on the optical surface of a CD. This was the second attempt after I managed to smear my greasy fingers over the target area on the first attempt.

I haven't had to do very much to it really. I did do a bit of cloning work, partly due to a slightly dirty sensor and partly due to macro shots showing dust/dirt far more clearly than normal shots. I also had to do the sharpening selectively as the long exposure time introduced a bit of noise which started to get more obvious after unsharp mask was applied.

Comments

Sierro, Wed 7th Dec, 2005, 11:09am
Macro! Ace!

Richard, Wed 7th Dec, 2005, 12:57pm
Macro, Ace!

Voroshilov, Wed 7th Dec, 2005, 8:39pm
It's like that round from Ask The Family.

SlasherMCT, Thu 15th Dec, 2005, 11:56am
Maybe you could try it with a DVD? :-) Interesting reflections in the droplet - your monitor? Maybe you could play around with the reflections there if you can focus any closer?

Jamey, Thu 15th Dec, 2005, 12:42pm
Yeah that's my monitor in the reflection. Think it might be onestop-digital that's on the screen. That was the closest I could focus, however I could just use a bigger droplet. That one was really small.

soft alan, Fri 6th Jan, 2006, 3:51pm
this has put me in a reflective mood tee hee

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