I’m still playing with the toy lens + 10 macro adaptor on the Olympus EP2. This is straight out of the cameras – a setting on a hosepipe multi spray nozzle. I set the white balance to cloudy to get the warm tone.
Peter Bargh
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I’m really enjoying my new found super blurry close up lens creation featuring the Toy Lens and Macro adaptor lens attached to an Olympus EP2. The combination gives incredibly shallow depth of field with vignetting and unusual bokeh.
This is the curve of a leather bag.
As you may know from reading some of my blog entries I like to mess around with unusual lens combinations.
This morning I attached the Toy lens onto the Olympus EP2 and then screwed in a +10 macro lens. This macro lens is part of an old fisheye macro converter. It gives good sharpness in centre but falls off at the edges. Combine that with the crazy Toy lens and you have ultra fall off at the edges. And here’s what happens.
This is of a chestnut leaf. The focus distance is about 4cm from the subject.
I was about to set the camera up to photograph a tomato that had fallen of my badly looked after tomato plant and a ladybird scuttled past. So I took a grab shot. I could have enticed the critter to do a few more takes to perfect it but I liked the spontaneity. So here it is.
A pair of cherries photographed on an infinity curve backdrop using my homemade ringlight from above
Pentax K20D and 100mm macro.
Another from a series charting the building progress of the new cinema in Worksop.
I will stand in the same spot once or twice each week and take a shot with the iPhone’s HDR camera app.
I finally got around to adding the colour to the kitchen cupboards I started work on a few weeks ago. As I was stirring the paint this evening I noticed the interesting patterns and photographed them.
Taken with the Pentax K20D and 100mm macro.
I’m cooking a beef curry tonight and while I got the onion sliced I slipped a bit on the lightbox for a backlit shot with the Pentax K20D and 100mm macro lens.
Alex and her new guitar. Taken with the Olympus Ep2 and 14-42mm lens, backlit and overexposed then mildly cross processed in Adobe Lightroom.
When I say the word Conkers all I can think now is Dizzee Rascal’s song “Bonkers”
That thought aside, this is a bunch of conkers just about ready to pop. Taken using the Pentax K20D and 16-45mm lens, fitted with a polarising filter.
