Macro Saturn

rnickl

[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]It's cold and rainy and I have the day off work so I had to find a new subject. Combining the opposite ends of photography

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rahmonster

Cool idea! I like it a lot:D

Lord Vetinari

Nice one- that's a mighty powerful magnifying lens

Assume it's a pic behind the drop ?
Brian v.

rnickl

Thanks guys

garyt

Very neat idea. I like it.

Skippy

rnickl wrote:

[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]It's cold and rainy and I have the day off work so I had to find a new subject. Combining the opposite ends of photography


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Now that's clever .... Skippy
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time2smile

dlplumer

Could you explain to me what exactly I am looking at. I like it a lot, but I am very curious about the setup. Thanx

Candid Arts

Seems like a marble or something to me. Never mind. Looks like a water drop, so photoshop? or like someone else said, a picture behind it?

rnickl

I've been gone for a few days and seem to have popped back in here just at the right time

Thanks for the comments all.

The setup is fairly simple. I clipped a small 2"x2" picture of Saturn from one of my Astronomy catalogs and placed it behind a water drop on a leaf. The image is a focus stack of 4 shots to get the water drop and image of Saturn both in focus.

I'm not sure who was the first to come up with these refraction shots but, I was inspired by Brian (AKA: LordV). You may want to look at some of his refraction shots for proper samples of what can be done and how outstandingly beautiful they can be.

Perhaps Brian would be kind enough to put me to shame and post a sample of his here?

dlplumer

rnickl wrote:

I've been gone for a few days and seem to have popped back in here just at the right time

Thanks for the comments all.

The setup is fairly simple. I clipped a small 2"x2" picture of Saturn from one of my Astronomy catalogs and placed it behind a water drop on a leaf. The image is a focus stack of 4 shots to get the water drop and image of Saturn both in focus.

Thanks. Very cool