During today’s play with macro lenses, this image popped up
No, I have not added a single colour to the background in processing
Have fun!
Claes in Lund, Sweden
During today’s play with macro lenses, this image popped up
No, I have not added a single colour to the background in processing
Have fun!
Claes in Lund, Sweden
I also developed an obsession for ballpoint pens when I got my first macro gear, but I didn’t get such interesting results
Love it!
And your non-descriptive titles.
Keeps me guessing.
It’s cool! So where did the background colors come from, if not from post-processing?
I would not have guessed it was a ballpoint pen until I saw Ofnuts’s comment.
Well, imagine a highly polished metal ballpoint pen.
Place it on a colourful piece of paper (like a printer test sheet from ArgyllCMS), and there you have it. Since the depth-of-field was so small, the coloured squares blurred into a nice “backdrop”.
The same principle can, of course, be used for many things. Like this one:
(Caption) Yesterday we sampled last year’s Amarone in our cellar.
And that is nothing but a fat lie. I searched for an image of a nice wine cellar on the Web and placed the cork in front of the monitor:
Have fun!
Claes in Lund, Sweden
PS: The Amarone was of a good vintage!
Ha! Thanks for the great explanations!
So the two cool hexagons on the right are reflections on the tip of the clip…
Reflections with lens flare from somewhere, yes.