Butterfly

I’ve spent some time this last summer trying to find a combination of techniques that would allow me to do wide angle macro. Of course, now that I’m pretty sure how to do it, a weird little lens company has announced a professional version of exactly what I’ve been trying to build. I’m trying to focus more on what I learned this summer and now how much time I wasted trying things that didn’t work out.

Originally posted at stories.starmind.org.

Butterfly

This is an example of a failed test of the new lens stuff. Here I learned that a wide angle macro lens will pick up the background a lot more than a regular lens, so shooting in a butterfly house only works if you’re shooting down.

I also learned that some lens flares are really weird when it comes to chromatic aberration.

(I also learned that it’s really hard to spell “aberration”.)

Originally posted at stories.starmind.org.

Butterfly

See? Background are crazy hard.

Originally posted at stories.starmind.org.