For this side exploration, "Out Of Time", I decided to take pictures of irises and pure rust with a macro lens. To be honest the reason why I chose these two things to take pictures of is just spontaneous decision making based on what would be interesting to see through a macro lens and what was available around us at the time. Ideally I would like to take pictures of coral but I was not able to.
I used an attachable macro lens, which is basically a lens that magnifies what your looking at to a well, macro level. You use these to take pictures of very small details, like plants, insects, etc.
Macro lens make very amazing pictures and overall heighten our knowledge of things up close.
The macro lens we used was a detachable one made to be put on smartphones. I have an iPhone,
so I attached the macro lens to the camera area.
The setup was very simple. I took some pure rust, and placed it on a white piece of paper on a table.
For the eyes I had Alex Wessel, a classmate, help me on taking a picture of my iris. I also took a picture of his iris.
To me one big surprise was that the rust looked kind of similar to coffee grounds. I honestly did not expect rust to look like the way it does with a macro lens. For the irises, one standout discovery was how dark my eyes really are. Even with a macro lens it is a very dark shade of brown.
Some questions I had before starting the picture taking were how rust would look like and how dark my iris are. To elaborate on my iris, I've always known that they were very dark, darker than most people's so I was always curious about how dark it is close up through a camera lens.
If I were to continue taking pictures of different things, I would take pictures of corals because they are very intriguing up close.
My main takeaway from this is that the world we see is only a fraction of how other creatures see the world. It is enlightening to know so much can be known through these kinds of methods for recording whether that is through time lapse or photography.
I used an attachable macro lens, which is basically a lens that magnifies what your looking at to a well, macro level. You use these to take pictures of very small details, like plants, insects, etc.
Macro lens make very amazing pictures and overall heighten our knowledge of things up close.
The macro lens we used was a detachable one made to be put on smartphones. I have an iPhone,
so I attached the macro lens to the camera area.
The setup was very simple. I took some pure rust, and placed it on a white piece of paper on a table.
For the eyes I had Alex Wessel, a classmate, help me on taking a picture of my iris. I also took a picture of his iris.
To me one big surprise was that the rust looked kind of similar to coffee grounds. I honestly did not expect rust to look like the way it does with a macro lens. For the irises, one standout discovery was how dark my eyes really are. Even with a macro lens it is a very dark shade of brown.
Some questions I had before starting the picture taking were how rust would look like and how dark my iris are. To elaborate on my iris, I've always known that they were very dark, darker than most people's so I was always curious about how dark it is close up through a camera lens.
If I were to continue taking pictures of different things, I would take pictures of corals because they are very intriguing up close.
My main takeaway from this is that the world we see is only a fraction of how other creatures see the world. It is enlightening to know so much can be known through these kinds of methods for recording whether that is through time lapse or photography.