November challenge, Macro photography

[OPS Notices]

Closing date, Sunday 29th November 2020

With newly imposed restrictions limiting our opportunities again, this month's challenge is on a topic you can participate in, closer to home, Macro photography.

Macro photography is taking photos of small objects to make them look life-sized or larger. Anything small, such as insects or things that we don’t normally get to see up close with the naked eye such as the detail in a coin or a flower are the usual candidates for macro photography.
Pay special attention to your focus because it can be tricky to get a macro photo in focus. Play with your exposure triangle, make sure you have enough light and be prepared to take LOTS of photos.

A few ideas of what to photograph are in this youtube video:


Good luck and have fun.

Closing date for entries will be 24th November, then voting opens.
Try to keep to 4 images per member, it makes the collation for voting easier.

[Ian Stedman]

I'll start this month's challenge off:


Freshly made Baby Groot.
It takes 7.5 hours to print one of these and a bit extra to clean him up a bit. Does not need to be too clean, as it adds to the character.

[Bazza]

Just love Baby Groot, think you need to have Zoom session explaining the process.

In meantime here's my launch Macro's with a difference

[Chris Sawyer]

Barrie, Your withered sunflower looks very alien.

[Bazza]

Think I watched a Dr Who once with something similar

[Alan Graham]

Mahonia japonica flowers in my garden, each one being about 1CM wide. More close-up than macro in my mind so I will need to get set up at home to see what I can produce.

[Chris Sawyer]

Alan, 3 flowers, 3 stages of opening, all looks good to me.

[Fay]

[Chris Sawyer]

Spider web with droplets (this morning).  Taken with a macro lens cropped to 25% of its original size.

[Bazza]

Nice one - expect this being the first of many Autumnal Spider webs