On 4/5/07, Dan Mitchell <danmitchell@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Someone mentioned wanting to take photos of grains of pollen in one of
> the macro/reversed lens threads a while ago. I had a gerbera daisy
> sitting around that was just _covered_ in the stuff, so I took some shots:
>
> http://www.danielmitchell.net/gal/E330/pollen
>
> First one with a 20/3.5, the other three with a reversed elgeet 7mm;
> otherwise nothing special, handleld with builtin flash, "ultimate cheap
> macro studio" style.
>
> I didn't realise pollen looked so much like _rice_ up close, and I
> didn't realise it was translucent. Also, even if I do say so myself, I
> really like the first shot; I wish I'd thought to get rid of the little
> hair on the left-hand side, though.
>
> -- dan
Nice, Dan. I like that first shot a lot too. The hair doesn't bother
me, and in fact adds something in the sense that otherwise there is
nothing to provide any real sense of scale. You're really doing some
interesting stuff to exploit the 330, and I can't believe that's
handheld.
Joel W.
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