It’s a Small World After All | 52 Week Blog Circle Project {20 of 52}
This week’s theme was close-up or macro. I do not own a macro…yet. It is the next item on my “prioritized purchased list”. But I saw a blog post by one of our own blog circle ladies a little while back about “reverse lens macro” and decided that I wanted to try it out. If you are not familiar with it please check out Jenn’s post on her blog when you get a chance. I also did a little more reading about it on the internet (isn’t internet a wonderful thing!?). It pretty much is as simple as taking off your lens turning it around and while you hand hold it to your camera body you press the shutter. But there are somethings you have to consider. Since you don’t have a lens attached you have no control of the aperture. Some of my images were REALLY bright but I could still control the amount of light hitting the sensor with my shutter speed and ISO. The other element to watch out for is light leaks. Since your lens is not attached to the camera body the chance for light to get to the sensor is greater…but that might look cool in some instances. Read the rest of this entry »
A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine, desert us when troubles thicken around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.
