Macro Mondays - week #2 - theme: Fruit

[Levina de Ruijter]

I thought we could start a new weekly challenge called Macro Mondays.

A new theme will be set every Monday at noon GMT and then you need to shoot that theme and post the resulting macro image(s) in that week's thread. You will have until the next Monday noon GMT to do so. As this is a personal challenge and not a competition and there are no winners you can add as many images as you like.

The rules are simple:

1. Post only macros*
2. Post only photos taken after a new theme is announced (so don't post images from your archives)
3. Photos need to be safe for work

*The standard definition of a macro is 1:1 reproduction ratio, i.e. a 35mm equivalent of 24x36mm. Members are encouraged to post "true" macros but photos that come close to the norm are also allowed.

So let's try this, see if we like it.

The theme for this week is: FRUIT

 

[Jack Dawe]

Mango

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

Mango

From what I learned in the first edition of this new challenge, I don't think this is Macro.

 

[Jack Dawe]

From what I learned in the first edition of this new challenge, I don't think this is Macro.

Ah, OK, sorry. Should I delete it?

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

Ah, OK, sorry. Should I delete it?

Thanks for asking, Jason, but no, it's fine.

 

[inphoto]

Apple
Shot this with the super macro function of the phone, not really macro though.

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

Apple
Shot this with the super macro function of the phone, not really macro though.View attachment 18800.

Seems close enough, inphoto!

 

[inphoto]

Macro for me is a full frame tiny flower or an insect.

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

Macro for me is a full frame tiny flower or an insect.

Nooo, you can do a lot more with macro. I had a friend on flickr who participated in flickr's Macro Mondays group and she was really great at it so I got to see wonderful macro shots that were not flowers and not insects. I learned from her that every theme can be shot in macro. That's why I thought we could do it here too. People aren't exactly warming up to it yet though, but that might change once we all realign our brains, thinking differently about macro.

I tried shooting a banana and that sucked majorly. But then I thought of something else that might actually look good. I'm just out of fruit at the moment. Except those bananas (that didn't work). No apples, no oranges, no nothing.

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

I remembered that I have tomatoes and although we eat them as vegetables, they are a fruit, so I played with them. I started with putting a slice on a glass plate, flash underneath and that didn't work. Then I took a bowl of water and started throwing the slice in it. That gave me some shots that I was not unhappy with. It was wickedly difficult to get the thing in focus though. AF didn't work of course, so I used MF. One thing I ran into (and I am sure it's a setting I can change) is how the time the scene was illuminated when looking through the viewfinder was always too short. So it would black out before I had the tomato in focus.