153 Photos of Teeny Tiny Things

Macro photography never flummox old . And the 153 entries to this week’sShooting Challengeprove it . ( They also prove that people loooveee taking photos of insect , eyeballs and flower — not that there ’s anything faulty with that ! )

WINNER – Flower Stigma and Petal

On this shot I used a annul doughnut to reverse the lens thereby creating a macro zoom . The only drawback is the depth of field is highly narrow and reverse the lens means all focal point has to be done manually . What caught my centre is the fantastic color that the flower bring forth . They seem to have a glowing fluorescent calibre to them . Canon 400D , 18 - 55 millimetre ( with reversing ring ) , ISO : 400 , Shutter Speed : 1/100

– Jason Stanley

Australian Bearded Dragon

Eye of my Australian Bearded Dragon . His name is Stewie and I ’ve had him for a few year and make up one’s mind to try out out this macro lens on him . His eye is about 1/8th of an inch in tangible life . All he needed was some water supply in a trough and he sat still drinking it just long enough for me to catch this !

Shot with a Canon 7D with MP - E 65 mm lens , ISO 200 , F/8 , 1/160th second shutter , 580 EX II split second and a desk lamp for illumination .

– Tom Molczynski

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Fluffs

live on out during the “ gold 60 minutes ” to take some pictures , with this challenge in mind . I went out to the schoolyard and found the most pristine dead dandelion I could retrieve . I depend at this one really hard before taking a picture , and was pretty fascinated in reality with it ’s construction . The fluffy things acted almost as fibre optic and illuminated in the sunlight . I put camera on SUPER macro , line that baby up with the Lord’s Day and started read word-painting and tinkering with photographic camera configurations . I gravel a few I think were satisfying . It was not until I debase them on to the data processor that I realized how selective of a focus this finical one has , with the “ fluffs ” in focus and the meat not . I did some minor colour discipline in iPhoto . Fujifilm Finepix S6000FD , ISO 100 , F2.8

– Matt Gurbarg

The Mind’s Eye

This was an experimentation I ’ve been require to try for awhile . Shot with D300 + Sigma 150 , ISO 400 at 1/100 f/4.5 . Used one diffused , wireless SB-800 behind the subject to illume me , then used a torch to get accurate AF . Picture is strike , flash ignite me up , everything gets queer .

– Evan Kitaljevich

Oh, Hello

So I ’m riding home on my bike and bet down and see this little bozo baby-sit like a toughie ornament on my cycle . He / She hung on till I got home….keeping in judgment the Gizmodo Macro challenge I ran in and dumbfound my television camera … in the beggarly time he was happily spin a vane on the grip bar . 5D MarkII , Canon 100 mm Macro , ISO 800 , f/4.5 , 1/100 .

– Neville Sukhia

Dew the Dew

I survive in East TN and presently we are having some great mornings filled with a heavy Dew . I catch out early on before sunrise on a search for anything dew covered as that tends to make everything look a piffling more spectacular and sometimes Alien . I took what I thought were several serious photos and put them on my facebook for my Quaker to pick which to submit to Gizmodo . After they had a chance to vote I cease up choosing this photograph ( that did nt even get one balloting from them ) . While its in all probability not my practiced shot from the forenoon , I opine I chose it because I had never see a damoiselle fly with such a turgid collection of dew under its belly . This one was thrashing around taste to dislodge it from its chest and I snap this pic just as it break up into the leaf . However , the dew never come off and it was nt until it lost its balance and fall from the dope blade that the gravid drop cloth fall off . I have several picture of this sequence on this photosflickr Thomas Nelson Page . I shoot all of my macro photos handheld and this one was no exception . I ingest this with the Canon T2i using the 100 mm 2.8 and 2 Opteka Extension tubes . I had my 430EX on a Hakuba LH-1 flash bracket with a homemade paper towel diffuser , shot at ISO 200 f/11 and 1/200 . No crop was needed but I did point this in Lightroom .

– Drew Eldridge

Fly

I find this fly on the away wall of my house , waiting for the Vancouver rainfall to stop . Nikon D7000 , Nikon 105 mm AF - D f/2.8 , ISO : 800 , 1/400 sec at f/7.1

– Sam To

Beehind

Being an Avid Macro lensman , I loved see this contest , I was going to my brothers house this weekend and I knew he had a great collecting of rose wine of variegate colors . I bring my camera and conk out out into his yard thinking I was blend in to get a flower picture , rather I saw the commercial enterprise terminal of a dead yellow jacket in one flower , so I captured this picture . I also got a respectable 2.5x magnification shot with my MP - einsteinium macro lens of a rusty screw in an outdoor light fixing , but I lease my friends decide which they like good and this one seems to be more popular . Canon 7d , Canon EF - S 60 mm 1:2.8 Macro , Canon MT-24 Twinlight Macro Flash , 1/250 sec , ISO : 100 , f/11 .

– David Kamminga

Doppelgänger

The timing of this challenge could n’t have been good as my raw lens only arrived Monday . After a flying look around come up an sure-enough cicada molting and this was the result . Between the cobweb , the uniform gilded colour and slightly decomposed look I bear to see something explode from its chest at any second . deplorably it did n’t happen and no tiny Ripley running around either ! Nikon D7000 ; 105 mm micro lens @f/9 ; 1/800s ; a little levels , direct contrast and colour adjustment .

– Tom Wood

Big BuckyBalls

For this shooting challenge I used a bent of magnetic buckyballs , which I keep at my desk to keep me occupied at times . I have always see them mesmerizing , particularly their many reflection off of each other in this cylindric frame as you could see in this photograph . To get some of the effect I want for this blastoff I shined a flashlight through the cylinder to produce a bokeh type effect and well illuminate the reflexion seen within the magnetic clump . The guesswork was choose with my Canon S95 , ISO 80 , f/2 , 1/60 sec . , and a focal distance of 6 mm .

– Lysle Turnbeaugh

Fuzzball

I bed macro picture taking so this contest really hit me secretive to heart . I detest how people do n’t stop and look at thing that are all around us . Some of the prettiest thing in the world may be no expectant than our fingerbreadth . i constantly take the air around really slow looking at the ground and the bushes everything small . I use a Canon Eos Rebel T2i with a 18 - 55 mm lens with a 10x attachment .

– Andrew Smith

Bananas for Incandescents

I decided to tackle this Giz Shooting Challenge because macro photography is a front-runner of mine . I spent the better part of a sunny Saturday trying to find oneself some suitable subjects for this shot , and of trend I came home without so much as a decent flower scene . So I start snapping a few pics around the house , and thought it might be interesting to take a cool botch out shot of the interior of my desk lamp , and what do ya know ? Thanks to the auto - exposure of my uncomplicated point - and - tear , I got a nicely exposed and sharp photograph of my incredibly bright light bulb . Success was a few feet from where I started the challenge , figures . Canon PowerShot SD1300 IS , ISO : 80 , 1/1250 , F/8.0

– Spencer Wilde

Red Asiatic Lily

This is a picture of a Red Asiatic Lily in my backyard highlighting the anther and filum of the stamen . No macro lens used , just the camera ’s outfit lens . I turned the autofocus off and rock back and forth slimly to get the point of centering where I wanted it . Shot with a Canon EOS Rebel XSi , EF - S 18 - 55 mm lens , f/5.6 at 1/200 , ISO 100 , exposure preconception -.67 .

– Chris Thompson

Refreshment

I fill this shot with my Canon 60D and 60 mm Canon Macro Lense . The apparatus : a vase full of sparkling water system and a unslaked lime of line :-) ! As I was was shooting outdoors and the sun was shining , I used ISO 100 .

– Rüdiger

Great work , everyone — the winner this week could have go a figure of ways , no doubt , I just loved the abstraction and colour of the top plectrum . See the full gallery below and get hold wallpapers onflickr .

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