The Inner Soul - Rediscovered

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Sriharsha Ganjam
The Inner Soul - Rediscovered
Well I was not completely satisfied with my earlier work of seeing a flower through the minute world of a dew drop. And as VMR had put it the "anchor" was a little too "hot" and I wanted to have a better anchor and get better details of the flower as well. So here is my second attempt at finding the Inner Soul.
Today morning I accidentally discovered an ingenious method of attempting Macro Photography. The water drop was so minute that I was failing to focus accurately on it and at 1:1 scale the DOF is a killer leaving absolutely no room for compromise (this was also magnified as I had opted to use a f4.5 to blurr out the BG as much as possible). So instead of trying to focus on the water using the lens I switched on to manual focus (at 1:1) and then put the camera on burst mode and keeping the shutter pressed I moved close to and away from the water drop. Believe me it works. In the process of this "human focus" as I want to call it, there will be one sweet spot where the focus is achieved on the water and as you are on burst mode it will be captured along with all the blurry the pictures where the water drop is not in focus owing to the movement. I found this method a lot more useful and easier rather than trying desperately to focus using the lens on to a very minute subject.
Sun Aug 03, 2008 11:31 am
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Commentby Pramod Viswanath on Sun Aug 03, 2008 5:08 pm

Fantastic image Sriharsha. Your hard work has really paid off. You have really redefined the way of seeing "Macro" things in the "Micro" world. Great effort and great result here! Keep them coming. I love this image.

PS: If you need magnification, rather than 'wasting' ( no offense intended here! ) shutter cycles by shooting 100 images and ending up getting 1 or 2 in sharp focus with desired result, I would strongly suggest you to use extension tubes. My two paisa..

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Commentby adkoli on Sun Aug 03, 2008 5:33 pm

Ecstatic. A beautiful double here. Just the droplet could have filled the frame !!!

Commentby Ganesh H Shankar on Sun Aug 03, 2008 9:34 pm

Nice try here Sriharsha! much better than the earlier one. Not sure whether you could have gone beyond life size here to magnifiy the drop further. Thanks for sharing !!

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Commentby Sriharsha Ganjam on Sun Aug 03, 2008 11:35 pm

True Pramod/Ganesh even I would have loved to have a greater magnification. But I was limited due to the lack of extension tubes in my arsenal. Have been considering investing in a Kenko set for a while, but just haven't had the time for picking one up.
Oooh and one more interesting thing I noticed today when I was just looking through my pictures of this experiment and I came across a really strange phenomenon. The first image I posted ([album]546[/album]) has a water drop which is hanging down suspended from the top. Now if you observe the image of the flower reflected in the water drop, its "upright". Now coming to this picture, the water drop is placed on top of a surface and the image of the flowers reflected inside the drop is "inverted". I dont know the physics behind it, but isn't it fascinating??



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Commentby Kaushik Balakumar on Mon Aug 04, 2008 12:17 am

Lovely image Harsha. Nicely composed image. Would be interesting to see a further close-up with magnified droplet. But this is no bad. Agree with Pramod on use of extension tubes.

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Commentby Santosh Saligram on Mon Aug 04, 2008 7:53 pm

Oh man, please accept my standing ovation for this image. This is the very pinnacle of seeing and creating what you saw. Tremendous execution here and the best part is you've shown how you can and you will succeed if you persevere long enough. To me, even though similar in concept, this is an altogether different image from the previous attempt and takes visual aesthetics to a different level! I could stare at this image for hours, it just has that kind of a magnetic aura. Everything in the image serves a purpose, and achieves a collective goal of keeping the viewer absolutely riveted to this splendid creation. But clearly the most impressive component of the image is, rightly, the dewdrop itself, which encompasses, like a magic crystal, so many beautiful colours in its delicate shape and form. In fact it looks very much like a paper weight, albeit a natural and a very pretty one! You could call this image "A Paper Weight on a Flower". Also, even though the flower in the BG adds a lot of drama and depth to the image, it would also be interesting, away from the scope of this site, for you to try burning out the BG using either cloning or layers, and try and bring out only the red flower and the 'paper weight' on top of it. That should be equally stunning. Thanks for persevering and bringing us this cracker!

Commentby Shankar Kiragi on Wed Aug 06, 2008 6:48 pm

Harsha, This is the cool idea and great output. TFS.

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