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Subjects in an unnatural environment?

 
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Dec 04, 2020 18:39 |  #1

Back in March, I was forced to move due to a huge fire next door that damaged my apartment.

My former home was above a large park system, and was home to a variety of orb weavers, centipedes and occasionally other insects.

I now live in a highrise apartment with virtually no insect or arachnid life.

It's now approaching winter and not much if anything is going to be found outside (the snow just mostly melted off of my balcony today).

I've got a full (albeit still broken down for the move) macrophotography rig including structural pipe table, steel plate and aluminum extrusion camera rig, Canon 80D, Wemacro, Tokina 100mm macro, extension tubes, 4x and 10x Amscope finite objectives and adapter (tubes and bellows), three studio strobes, three Amazon Basics flashes, three 300w equivalent CFLs in studio lamps.

My current home has much more stable floors, so I'm leaning toward breaking down the large table and using a smaller subject table I also built from structural pipe.

Any suggestions regarding non-animal subjects? In the past, I've had trouble finding inanimate subjects, since most of what I had lying around was highly reflective and VERY hard to photograph.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.




  
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Dec 05, 2020 09:16 |  #2

You could order some 'little people' and think up some amusing scenarios.
Preiser are the best albeit quite expensive. HO size for macro work.

https://www.preiserusa​.com/category/Model-Figures (external link)


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Dec 06, 2020 00:04 |  #3

Soap films and bubbles can be fun.

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