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Super Macro
By sirsnapalot | January 8, 2010
I’ve been playing around recently with macro, trying to push further and further into the realm of the invisible, without making expensive investments in equipment. I will be detailing how to do this in a series of articles, but for a teaser, here is a shot I took last evening of something simple lying around the house- table salt.
Table Salt in Super Macro
I took this shot using my Canon EOS50D, but with a bellows (an extension tube), and a 28mm wide-angle lens from my old 35mm camera, flipped around backwards (hey, nobody says you have to install the lenses the way the manufactures intend you to 
).
Click on the above image to see the full-sized resolution picture, at 280x magnification, in Flickr. Here’s a detailed portion of that shot, at approximately 200x magnification:
Table Salt- close-up
Another element of the picture is the “Dark Field Illumination”- the isolation of your subject from the background. This makes it stand out more, and makes for a more dramatic picture. So, stay tuned for more articles on both the macro and the Dark Field processes! (I’m still very new to Dark Field, so it may take a while for me to develop that area.)
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