I found this leaf on my deck after some large storms. The water pooled on the leaf surface reminded me of liquid metal, so I brought that feel to the entire image.
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Project 365 : Crop Circles
Despite the beautiful weather today, I found myself once again playing with my macro lens. The subject today was a circuit board extracted from an old XM Radio receiver. Specifically, this is the area on the circuit board where the little rubber buttons contact it to signal user selections. To me, this looked like a crop circle dropped in a field of green.
This image was made with my Canon 7D and Canon MP-E 65mm 1x-5x macro lens. I worked over the image in Photoshop CS4E, using the Bleach Bypass filter in Nik Color Efex Pro, with a touch of Nik Viveza thrown in for good measure. Realizing I forgot to whiten the whites, I bleached them in Lightroom using the Adjustment Brush.
Project 365 : Copper Spindle
After missing a couple of days on my Project 365, I got back to it tonight. Having shredded a VCR a few weeks ago, I stored off a bunch of mechanical parts and circuit boards to photograph later — like tonight!
This is a macro image of a spindle that was part of the tape travel mechanism. I really like the patterns on the metal, and thought they deserved some focus tonight. This image was made with my Canon 7D and Canon MP-E 65mm/2.8 lens, and then processed with Photoshop CS4E and Nik Color Efex Pro.