2024 07 - [June and] July

Following a busy May... I had a busy June. And then a busy July! Between a major update to an existing project, several other projects coming to the fore, a reasonably hyperfocussed effort to complete some freelance work and an attempt to create an educational VR game proof of concept, I haven't stopped all that much.

Macro

Macro is cool, and I'd really like to delve into supermacro at some point. Until such a time as I can afford the flash setup and a 2:1 lens. I don't think I could stretch to an OM-1 + OM Systems 90mm f3.5 lens, as nice as that might be.

For now, I will content myself with the window into tiny worlds that is the 1:1 magnification's strongest asset (in my opinion!).

Semi-Macro

I wondered what would happen if I put my Raynox DCR-250 on my Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 Prime. As you'd expect, things got pretty dark pretty quickly. They also got - I think - pretty pretty. I don't think this was quite 1:1, but I'm not about to attempt the maths involved in figuring that out. Here are two test shots of a "dew"-covered cobweb-covered succulent.

Outdoors

Despite the crush, I did actually go outside ove the past couple of months. Twice! Okay, maybe a couple of times more than that.

Fish

I've been lucky enough over the past few months to be asked to feed my neighbour's fish. They're cool, and fascinating to watch. This has, somewhat foreseeably, turned into something else I try to take probably-too-many-photos of.

It does feel a little strange that my first post on Push // Pull is about fish considering I know next to nothing about then, but here we are: A New Obsession: Taking Pictures of Feeding Fish to Improve Timing and Reactions.

A lot of the pictures here are doubled in that post. While I wouldn't necessarily recommend reading that post, my friend Matt Becker - the owner of Push // Pull - has some interesting posts on his return to film photography and the trials of finding open source software that can compete with the Adobe juggernaut.