Utterly zero interest in the baby bug, which is a good thing. ;)
Tag: macro
Phoneography Monday Challenge: Macro
Apps used: Camera+, Snapseed, Instagram
Sometimes one doesn’t see something until after the fact. A close shot of the side of a mug of coffee at the local hawker centre, shows it unexpectedly clad with sugar.
Got my hands on the new $1 coin.
Phoneography Monday Weekly Challenge: Macro
Apps used: Camera+
The one on the left is the new third series $1 coin that is replacing the old second series coin on the right. Series 2 has been in circulation for over 25 years. The new $1 coin which is bigger can no longer fit into the pay-per-use supermarket carts, so it initially did cause us some confusion, until we realised that we should use the new 50-cents coin from the third series.
The interesting feature about our $1 coins is the octagonal frame within the round shape, which according to urban legend, is there for fengshui reasons. It ensures that every citizen will carry an evil-warding bakua on their persons and bring prosperity to the nation.
I do prefer the second series coins, which Sydney describes as carrying a garden city in our pockets. The $1 coin sports the periwinkle flower. You can see the full set of coins with the corresponding photograph of the plants/flowers featured on Sydney’s post – Garden City on the coins. It is a pretty concept, I think. :P I also find the execution of the embossed design on the second series more refined compared to the third. Or it could be that the dirt trapped on the old coin shows up the design better. :P Haha!
The third series coins feature the national icons or landmarks of Singapore. Pictures comparing coin design to actual here – Singapore’s Third Series Coins.
Anyway, out of the set of coin denominations, I do actively collect 5-cent coins. It seemed the aluminium-bronze plating helps to turn my hydrangea flowers from pink to blue (which I prefer), so I have been throwing these garden themed coins into the plant pot to aid the flowering. :P Muahahahahaha!
None of the third series coins are aluminium-bronze plated though. :( Gah!
Anyway, here’s another round object belonging to a creature that had Mr P and I running in circles for the last few nights every time it rains or the wind howls. @_@ I am a very tired human.
Completely disappear has done a macro post on Japanese coins before that I liked.
Reference
– http://www.mas.gov.sg/newcoins
– http://www.mas.gov.sg/NewCoins/Third-Series/Features.aspx
– http://www.mas.gov.sg/NewCoins/Third-Series/FAQs.aspx
“Oh, grandmother, what big eyes you have!”
“All the better to see you with.”
“Oh, grandmother, what big hands you have!”
“All the better to grab you with!”
“Oh, grandmother, what a horribly big mouth you have!”
“All the better to eat you with!”
*chuckle*
Accompanying text: Excerpt from Little Red Cap, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Phoneography Challenge: Macro – Donna
App: Camera+
People who are unfamiliar or have a fear of dogs may see the dog as the sum of its parts – the staring eyes, the long black claws, the gaping mouth, the sniffing nose atop the fangs, but most of all the unpredictability that comes with an unfamiliar animal.
But what I see is a lovely canine companion, fun-loving, playful but also patient and smart enough to put up with all sorts of non-dog things I make her do, like playing dead and high-five. How else could I get a dog to let me take pictures of her parts at such close range? :)
On one of those random days, I was just hanging around downstairs waiting for Mr P to come by and pick me up in his car. I had just discovered iPhoneography Monday then. So I was trigger happy and adding junk shots to my camera roll.
This is a skinny young tree right by the foot path from our block of flats. You can barely see the bark behind the green stuff growing on it.
Not unlike my dog, I wrapped myself around the tree and tap, tap, tap… and before I knew it, I was at the back of the tree and this was clinging quietly right there. To tell the truth, I almost missed it because it blended with the tree so well.
I do confess my timid heart and this was as close as I dared to go for macro. :P Yes, even if I do believe it was quite dead. Mr P said otherwise and intimated that it will jump on me at any time.
And yes, I took liberties to add mysterious purple and deep green wounds to the tree to show you the potential or imaginary poison contagion left by the spider.
And then on my way home today, I found a section of the railing removed from the fencing running along the path. If I had a toy train, I would slip it inside and pretend it was a city rail tunnel.
Yup these are my close up shots for Phoneography Monday: Macro
Apps used: Camera+, HDR Art, Blendcam, Snapseed, InstaMag, HelloCamera
Instead I was pottering in my kitchen snapping macro-views of things with, I would like to say childlike wonder, except that from what I read that phrase is usually used to describe other people and never yourself. But I did get rather excited and shuffled around looking for more things in the kitchen to take macro pictures of.
But let’s start from the beginning shall we?
So I just started to pick up iPhoneography skills. This week’s topic was “macro”, a format that I was not familiar with. I failed in my first attempt. My dog ate my homework subject. Right. Some things are better done indoors, and with more research.
I knew macro pictures had to be taken with macro lenses so I was uncertain how I was to do that with a camera phone. Is there any specific macro photo app that I should download? Research ensued in which I was educated by a bunch of harebrained people to shoot through a magnifying glass, a water droplet (at the detriment of the phone!), etc, etc. Of course there are macro lens for iPhones on the market if you are so inclined. I’m not.
So anyway, let’s give those harebrained suggestions a shot. Why not, I’m as harebrained as the rest of them anyway. It seemed more prudent to place the drop of water on the lens at the front of the phone rather than the lens on the back of the phone. The front is all plastic covering over the lens, so I thought there would be less worry about the water seeping in there. So what conspired was, the phone was resting stably on a box in front of the window (so there is some indirect light), and the tiny toothpick drop of water sitting on the plastic covering the lens. The rest was just a matter of holding the object to be photographed over the drop of water and positioning it to get as sharp an image on the screen as possible before tapping the phone.
Note: Please understand that Apple does not provide warranty for water damage and iPhones are definitely not waterproof.
And since I was at the same time having an interesting time looking at Meg Greene’s multiple exposures, I thought to try that out. Searched and downloaded the first app Google threw up at me.
I narrowed down my selection to a set of four objects, each with one close-up and one macro snap of it. For each double exposure, I layered a close-up view of an object with the macro shot of another object. Made it into a four-tile collage and this is what I ended up with.
Can you match each close-up to its corresponding macro image?
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Here are the answers:
Dust, scratches, detail and fibre. I was quite amazed by the degree of detail in the macro captures.
Then the light grew bad, so I stopped.
Hello sleepy.
iPhoneography Challenge: Macro
Apps used: Camera+, Instablend, Moldive
By the way, this is the exact size of an image saved from Instablend, so tiny!
I couldn’t find the settings to increase the resolution. The advertising was also very obtrusive and irritating. So I won’t really recommend it. Let me know if you have an awesome double or multiple exposure app to share, k?
By the way, you guys should check out echo/sight if you are interested in double exposures. Their work is amazing.
– http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1068932801/new-york-london
– http://instagram.com/echosight
References
– http://osxdaily.com/2012/10/07/tips-better-iphone-macro-photos/
– http://osxdaily.com/2012/07/07/take-an-iphone-photo-remotely-using-the-earbuds/
