Frost crystals

Lord Vetinari · February 21, 2012

Interesting frost yesterday morning on the front lawn. All shots have some focus stacking using zerene stacker.

Brian v.

Spiky frost crystals on grass blade

Frozen dewdrop on grass blade

Frost "flowers" on the tips of grass blades

theprincereturns · February 22, 2012

Great shots! I was going to ask if you had to use some focus stacking but You answered my question :-)

clickin girl · February 22, 2012

Brian, I am speechless!! These take my breath away! Do you use extension tubes to get in this close? Absolutely brilliant! I want to be you some day!

!!

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Lord Vetinari · February 23, 2012

Thanks TPT and CG for the comments

CG I was using my MPE-65 lens, 2:1 magnification on #1 and I think 4:1 on the rest.

Brian v.

rob marshall · February 26, 2012

Excellent shots, Brian. Fascinating structures on the ice. I have just cut off my options for the 'front lawn' by turning it into a gravel garden!

I hope to be getting the MPE-65 later this year. Are there any particular problems with it? I use a 5DM2.

Lord Vetinari · February 26, 2012

rob marshall wrote: »

Excellent shots, Brian. Fascinating structures on the ice. I have just cut off my options for the 'front lawn' by turning it into a gravel garden!

I hope to be getting the MPE-65 later this year. Are there any particular problems with it? I use a 5DM2.

Thanks Rob.
Not really any specific problems with the MPE-65 that aren't present in any higher magnification system apart from perhaps the lens does more than double it's length going from 1:1 to 5:1.

Main problems tend to be motion bluring unless you are using a tripod or flash, diffraction softening unless you open up the aperture as the mag gets higher and fairly obviously limited DOF.
Last thing is, it shows up sensor dirt like no other lens.
Just takes a bit of getting used to
Brian v.