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Pretty gloomy day as we're full into mud season but I've been wanting to put my Z6 II through its paces as a macro camera and have been motivated by some of the excellent water refraction images posted in the macro forum. Had some fresh cut flowers in the house so I played around with some water drop refraction macro stuff today.
Here's one I like
Nikon Z6 II, 105mm AF-S Micro lens + TC-14 iii + 36mm extension tube for ~2:1 macro. Lit with Lumecube Panel Mini
The trick is getting the water drops big enough and getting them to stay put without either dripping or running backwards up the glossy side of the leaves due to surface tension. I see how you could go nuts with this kind of macro work playing with different: background flowers, foreground subjects, spacing, lighting, polarization, heck maybe even focus stacking if you could work fast and keep the lighting steady (was handholding the light and adjusting for look).
Fun stuff for sure and something I'd like to try with our native spring flowers when they bloom.
Here's one I like
Nikon Z6 II, 105mm AF-S Micro lens + TC-14 iii + 36mm extension tube for ~2:1 macro. Lit with Lumecube Panel Mini
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The trick is getting the water drops big enough and getting them to stay put without either dripping or running backwards up the glossy side of the leaves due to surface tension. I see how you could go nuts with this kind of macro work playing with different: background flowers, foreground subjects, spacing, lighting, polarization, heck maybe even focus stacking if you could work fast and keep the lighting steady (was handholding the light and adjusting for look).
Fun stuff for sure and something I'd like to try with our native spring flowers when they bloom.
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