timsdd aka Tim's Digital Darkroom

This is a gold paint pen, a great subject to both use and photograph. It presented a big challenge trying to light it though, as you can imagine it is QUITE reflective. It did offer a large number of shots to use various DOF’s & POF’s though. I was sure to explore it as much as I could.

The other part of the pen, I used it on several objects to make them more interesting, one below being a case in point, adding color to the metal part of a clothespin.

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Chalk! Standard thin size, not the jumbo sidewalk variety. As you can see, one of them fills the frame! For that reason, I bet it would be worth a revisit with the std macro lens, possibly coupled with the extension tubes.

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Found this guy outside, a bird eggshell; barn swallow (we have a nest out our back door).

Some sort of push button switch. I can’t recall at this time what it was from.

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The trackball from our mouse.

Fruity cheerio

regular cheerio, added light by using a laser pointer.

painted clothes pin…fresh with BOKEH!

Light was using a flash light that is very ‘cold’

more chalk, looks more like a rock

2 lens macro, canon 50mm/1.4, close-up photography, extreme macro,macro photography,reverse ring, Sigma 105mm f/2.8 EX DG Macro Lens, Sigma EM-140 DG TTL Macro Ringlight Flash,specialized macro,paint pen, chalk, trackball, switch, cheerio

Go to the next page in my gallery and I answer my own questions from the previous post!

This and the image in the previous post are clear to me now, phone jack!! My memory…needs defragmenting :-P

This is a plant leaf, like an ivy of some sort. I do not even recall where I procured said leaf, but you’ve got to love the purple/green combo.

misc wires; DOF!

This one is definitely salt. Got some good cubes that I was able to grow from this batch. I’ve set out to grow them on several occasions, all end up quite different.

I need to throw some new variables in there and see what I can come up with….going to need to buy more salt though!

This is the bar code from a flashlight or something similar.

This is the membrane from a mini kazoo….you heard me!

Chapstick…gnarly looking right?

The wrapper from a ‘Kiss’

Some kind of cloth, I want to say a lens cleaning cloth

A pretzel fish :-)

The end of a cigarette lighter power connector for some device.

2 lens macro, canon 50mm/1.4, close-up photography, extreme macro,macro photography,reverse ring, Sigma 105mm f/2.8 EX DG Macro Lens, Sigma EM-140 DG TTL Macro Ringlight Flash,specialized macro,plant, wire, salt, kazoo, sugar, fish, toast

I can’t remember if this is salt or sugar! 1st one makes me want to say salt b/c the crystals are more varied in shape and size. 2nd one looks more like sugar to me. I have taken some sugar shots off cinnamon and sugar toast. Right now I am leaning 70% salt, 30% sugar.

No question what the next few are, Fruity Pebbles! As you can see, not many pebbles actually make it into the frame! Made for a nice colored and textures shot(s) though.

more looks at the car fuse, obviously a blown one.

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{Above R} An upside down pig from the fun game “pigs”. How many points is this?

Napkins…added contrast but as you can see, the ones made form recycled material really have a lot going on in them.

My alien ice once again.

This is some sort of coil, from the DSL modem again I think. 1st shot = SHALLOW DOF! about as shallow as you can get. I love the way it wraps itself around and down the right side of the coil.

Phone jack….or maybe an Ethernet one

2 lens macro, canon 50mm/1.4, close-up photography, extreme macro,macro photography,reverse ring, Sigma 105mm f/2.8 EX DG Macro Lens, Sigma EM-140 DG TTL Macro Ringlight Flash,specialized macro,sugar, fruity pebbles, fuse, napkin, coil