Macro Speed Challenge #11 - Objects in Motion

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Macro Speed Challenge #11

Objects in Motion


I've always been intrigued by how motion is captured in still photography... For example how the moving weights in my watch show up as a solid object when in reality they are discrete shapes or how a fast shutter speed can "freeze" a drop of water in mid air. Anything that moves or is moving is allowed... Have at it everyone...

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Standard Rules apply:

Photo Submissions:
Camera - Canon DSLR camera.
Lens - Any lens, or attachment that can give Macro (http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showpost.php?p=779256&postcount=2) photos (ex. extension tubes, bellows, macro filters, reverse mounted lens and of course a true macro lens.).
Time - any on-topic photo taken at any time is eligible, although photos that have won other competitions should NOT be entered.
Size - Please see the Image posting rules (http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=194511).
Post-Processing - do whatever you like and the host will decide if it works.
Posting:
ONE MACRO PHOTO (http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showpost.php?p=779256&postcount=2) per photographer in each challenge.
Photo Name/Title in the message.
Camera model & lens used in the message.
Post brief Exif data including ISO, shutter speed and aperture used in the message.
Notes - anything you feel you need to explain.
Commenting - No commenting during challenge. When the posting is closed and a winner has been declared, comments can be made in this thread.
Questions - Use PM
Have FUN! :smile:One challenge every week, on the following schedule:
New Topic - After winner is declared.
Posting Starts - Right after topic is announced.
Posting Ends - 10:00 PM EST Tuesday, January 27, 2009. Winner will be announced shortly thereafter. When it's done come visit, talk about your shots, what you liked about yours, others or even ask how someone setup their shot. Visit even if you did not enter the contest!
Winner from this competition decides the theme of the next one (and judges it for a winner) after this competition is closed.Here is a link to our previous Macro DSLR Speed Challenge winners <-- click to see (http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=606993)

[Daniel2000]

"liquid marbles"
http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh26/Daniel2000/IMG_9257.jpg

40D + sigma 70-300 macro APO
1/250"
f/5.6
ISO 100
flash

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"Braking"

100mm
ISO 100
1/60 sec @ f/3.5

http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/ff44/genodm/Macro/IMG_8663-Edit.jpg

[John_B]

Multi Light H20

http://johnbdigital.com/special_beauty/multi_light_h20.jpg

Technical Details
for Multi Light H20


Camera - Canon EOS 40D
Film / Media - SanDisk Ultra II 2.0GB
Lens - Canon EF 100mm f/2.8
Shooting Mode - Manual
Tv( Shutter Speed ) - 1/8th sec
Av( Aperture Value ) - F/2.8
Metering Mode - Spot

[Flo]

I am deleting my entry:o I forgot the macro part..thanks John;)

[monty28428]

40d, 1/200, f/13 iso 200

Figured this needed a bump... best I could come up with tonight.

[lavanut]

337399

40D
Canon 100mm macro
Av - 7.1
Tv - 1/125
ISO 400
Off camera flash
Manual exposure

[frenchfx]

http://frenchfx.smugmug.com/photos/462833669_hrisv-M-0.jpg
40D 50mm macro
125@7.1 ISO100

[icon134]

Ok everyone... Some great entries this week... This weeks macro speed challenge is officially closed...

It's cold, late, and snowy here in Ohio... and I'm going to sleep on it and post results in the morning... assuming I have electricity and/or internet...

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This week appears to be mostly all wet... with a number of you taking pictures of liquid... (not a bad thing as some of these entries are extremely cool)

We started off with Daniel2000's liquid marbles... which has a liquid of a unique color and I'm curious to know how you got the several distinct "marbles" of water...

genodm's: "Braking" was the only photograph submitted this this week that didn't have some sort of liquid directly involved... I am curious what kind of brake it is... and I love the lighting...

John_B's is more of an abstract and although it's not something I'm likely to do It is a very neat picture... (it seems like something I might see in an art gallery :)...)

Monty's entry is an interesting photograph... when I first looked at the picture I didn't catch what was going on... but after a bit I noticed that there were coins in the bottom of the glass and my fiancee and I both thought it was a really neat effect.

Lavanut's photograph is probably my favorite concept I really like that you can see the candle inside the nearly perfect sphere of a water droplet.

frenchfx: This picture is very timely... It looks cold... and it's very cold and icy here right now...

So to the winner...

you all aren't kidding that this is hard... because there are a number of great entries but I think I have to give the win to Lavanut... with a close second by genodm and right on his heals is John_B (and btw... I really want to know how you did this...)

Thanks everyone and I really look forward to next weeks challenge... :)

[John_B]

Congrats lavanut :)
Looking forward to the Macro Speed Challenge #12

Congrats to all, as they were all good photos (to my eyes) :)

[monty28428]

Congrats Lavanut!! Awesome shots as well John & Geno -- I would have had a very hard time picking between these three!.

[lavanut]

I won?? Cool! Great shots all...
I'm at work now but will post the new one up tonight. I have an idea.:D

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Congrats lavanut, your turn to suffer! :-)

The brake is the disc on the front of my bicycle (that's never used)... I tuned the bike upside down, lit it with a Home Depot worklight and gave the wheel a spin. Took a few shots to get one that looked good.

Monty, it took me a couple of days to "see" your shot as well. Nicely done.

[brecklundin]

wonderful shots by everyone this week! I didn't have any time to devote but really enjoyed seeing what everyone came up with...

Daniel: you really just keep showing what a great lens that Sigma 70-300 APO Macro really is...I had one and loved it but chose my 55-250 for the IS, which I need for the most part. But mine was a super copy and part of me did not want to sell it off, though it went to another POTN'er.

And congrats to lavanut...though I am becoming juuuust a bit concerned with your constant quest for fire...hehehehe...at least this time it was around something liquid. Hopefully is was not a FLAMMABLE liquid... ;)

[Daniel2000]

thanks Breklundin for the comment and just wait for some super macro shot to come, I just made myself an adapter, with two old cheap filter with glass removed, to screw on backward my 50mm f/1.8... :)

and for the marbles, I had put some yellow food colorant in the water and drop in some syrup of strawberry flavored Nesquick ;)
the multiple droplets are just a fluke of the backsplash

[pennypue]

Ya'll intimidate the crap out of me!

I couldn't think of anything small, in motion to shoot. And I wasn't ready to attempt water droplets.........

The brake was really puzzling me. Couldn't quite figure out how you got a pic of a brake. I had this image of you hanging out the window of a car.......roflmao

[monty28428]

LOL!! I think he might be crazy enough to do it too...

[lavanut]

Hey all! Everyone had some nice shots in this one! I feel really lucky to have won!
New challenge is up:
http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?p=7208281#post7208281

John_B - want to share some tips/tricks on the lighting on that shot? I have an idea of what you did, but I hope you'd share.

genodm - oddly enough I knew that was a brake disc off a bike. Could it have been from the macro guessing game?? Way cool shot showing the motion there.

brecklundin - No, I'm not a pyromaniac or anything, but looking at candles/matches through a macro lens fascinates me, though fire on a larger scale scares me. I'd played with water drops before and with the recent try on the matches, I thought I'd try to combine the candle and a water drop to see if I could catch it just right to get the refraction of the flame. Let's just say it took a few tries. Maybe one day I'll get a photogate trigger or the like, but right now it's all manual timing (and I'm getting pretty good at it).

Oddly enough, I did relatively little PP on the shot. I'm sure it could use more, but that's about how it came out of the camera. I smiled when I saw it!!

Thanks for the comments everyone! Have fun with the new one, though I bet I won't have fun judging...

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LOL!! I think he might be crazy enough to do it too...

HEY!!!! :lol:

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genodm - oddly enough I knew that was a brake disc off a bike. Could it have been from the macro guessing game?? Way cool shot showing the motion there.

Never been on the MGG. Maybe somebody else posted something similar. Initial idea was my speedometer. I took some shots at 120 kph at night blasting down the highway (Monty, it wasn't easy with a 100mm...) but wasn't happy with the way it fit the competition.

[lavanut]

Never been on the MGG. Maybe somebody else posted something similar. Initial idea was my speedometer. I took some shots at 120 kph at night blasting down the highway (Monty, it wasn't easy with a 100mm...) but wasn't happy with the way it fit the competition.

A macro at 120 kph? at night? OMG....
My bad on thinking it might've been you on MGG. It was someone else. But check out the pic (post 8667). Freakily similar to your pic, but yours in motion was cool...
http://www.pbase.com/tomjd99/image/108434650.jpg

[monty28428]

LOL -- Geno! I knew I was right about you ;-)

Thought some might find this interesting... here's a nickel bouncing off the water

[brecklundin]

<snip>....

brecklundin - No, I'm not a pyromaniac or anything, but looking at candles/matches through a macro lens fascinates me, though fire on a larger scale scares me. I'd played with water drops before and with the recent try on the matches, I thought I'd try to combine the candle and a water drop to see if I could catch it just right to get the refraction of the flame. Let's just say it took a few tries. Maybe one day I'll get a photogate trigger or the like, but right now it's all manual timing (and I'm getting pretty good at it)....</snip?>

Suuure, that's what they all say "...I can stop anytime I want...I am not a {fill in the blank}..." :p

HEHEHEHEHE...sorry, as always I just crack myself up...

Oddly enough, I did relatively little PP on the shot. I'm sure it could use more, but that's about how it came out of the camera. I smiled when I saw it!!

Very funny you should put it that way. Almost every macro I posted was accidental or more accurately, inadvertent. The Phart'd Eye was simply something I created out of curiosity and found I really liked it...

That is something I am really getting out of these challenges, I get to experiment and who cares...plus we all can go to school on each other. I for one completely MISSED the refraction in the drop. But seeing it now gives me another tool to consider when trying to come up with different ways of looking at potential shots.

speaking of triggers...one day I want to either buy or rent a lightening trigger and find a place with a lot of it...I wonder if a lightening trigger would work for your lighted match shots? Where is McGuyver when we need him!!??

[brecklundin]

MONTY!!! That is OUTSTANDING and I like it even better than the other one, which I loved!!

Hey, one could ensure a bounce by making very firm jello then just float a thin layer of water to ensure lots of splash but the jello would work like a trampoline, ya think?

[monty28428]

LOL - Yea I've got a couple like that... I overlooked them thinking I had pressed the shutter release to quickly and it was just the coin approaching the water.

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A macro at 120 kph? at night? OMG....
My bad on thinking it might've been you on MGG. It was someone else. But check out the pic (post 8667). Freakily similar to your pic, but yours in motion was cool...


Like I said, it was tough to photograph the speedo with a 100. I only got a couple in focus, here's one at 80 kph.

Also, another one of the disc that shows it a little better.

[lavanut]

speaking of triggers...one day I want to either buy or rent a lightening trigger and find a place with a lot of it...I wonder if a lightening trigger would work for your lighted match shots? Where is McGuyver when we need him!!??

Yeah, I want to try one of those too, but they won't work for matches. They need a "flash" more like lightening. It's been a while since I looked at them, but supposedly other flashes/strobed won't even set the lightening trigger off.

I want to try one of the triggers that will fire the camera/flash when something like a drop passes between a photodiode and receptor. There are various ones out there, but I've never played with one myself. I bet I'd have fewer missed shots with that once it's calibrated.

And if we're sharing other tests, here was one of my early trials for this comp. I was playing with 2nd curtain sync on the flash. Yet another thing to get out and try for an assignment where we can learn from each other (and our own successes/failures). It was a neat concept but needs something else. No PP except for levels/curves adjustments. This was a rolling coin while firing the flash at the end of the exposure (2nd curtain sync), hence the trails.
http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/ufiles/39/304739.jpg

[monty28428]

^very cool -- I tried that with a marble but kept blowing it out or missing it all together

[pennypue]

http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/ufiles/39/304739.jpg
Sweet! Someday I'll figure out what that second curtain thingie means and how to do it. :)

[brecklundin]

lavanut: what about buying a simple motion sensor and wireless trigger (phottix since they are cheap). Take the trigger apart and wire the motion sensor instead of the button. Not sure of you could bypass the remote's button but it might be possible. ANd that could be used as a poor dude's motion trigger?

I haven't really played with 2nd curtain stuff at all...only thing I read was to add more motion to a panning shot the 2nd curtain will not freeze things as much? Or do I have that bassackwards? No matter it's down my list for most of what I like doing right now...still I need to find that section in Understanding Shutter Speed which I have just done a cursory skim of so far...btw, I really like Bryan Peterson's books a lot.

[Daniel2000]

second curtain flash can create cool effect like in this shot I made
no PP except for levels
used a flash light for the trail, 13 sec exposure and second curtain flash
http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh26/Daniel2000/IMG_9342copy.jpg

and yes it's me.. :p

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second curtain flash can create cool effect like in this shot I made


OK, that one needs explaining.

[Daniel2000]

I've set exposure to 13 sec, moved the flashlight in the dark room around me and the flash triggered at the end ot the 13 sec to give that pic
pre focus the shot before turning the lights out ;)

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I'm going to have to try that one! Cool effect.

[icon134]

OK, that one needs explaining.I'll field it... Basically the second curtain flash basically opens the shutter for a longer exposure without the flash then opens it up again for a short flash burst.

Often it is used to expose the foreground of a group of people (using the flash) while allowing background to expose a bit more such as might happen in a night scene in a big city.

But it can also work as in the case of what lavanut did where he catches the movement of the nickel then freezes the nickel.


http://oreilly.com/pub/h/1771

And penny... please don't be intimidated... I am certainly not an expert myself... but am using these competitions to learn new things and develop some new skills... (I only learned refraction techniques from my first contest entry a month ago...)

Love the discussion everyone...

[John_B]

Here is how I got my photo Multi Light H20 (http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showpost.php?p=7164985&postcount=4)

I set up my camera on a tripod using the 1:1 macro setting on my 100mm macro lens.
http://johnbdigital.com/temp/temp2/macro_11_setup.jpg
After I focused and set up my camera I turned off the lights and aimed a laser beam into the water and took a ISO 1600 photo. Then took another photo using the LED flash light at ISO 200. Both photos were f/2.8 and 1/8th second exposure. Then just combined both photos (50% each) to one photo.

[pennypue]

http://oreilly.com/pub/h/1771

And penny... please don't be intimidated... I am certainly not an expert myself... but am using these competitions to learn new things and develop some new skills... (I only learned refraction techniques from my first contest entry a month ago...)

Love the discussion everyone...Love the link. Still a bit beyond me. I need another six weeks off work to play. I don't even know how to do mirror lockup yet. :rolleyes:

Refraction? hehe, dunno exactly what you mean. Is that the water droplet stuff?

(I'm still intimidated...:))