Some more Sunday close-ups. Mostly fossils. All with the Moment Macro, which means you can tell the width of the picture in real life is 3cm.
Here I’m frustrated by limited depth of field. The plant fossil has a curved surface away from the camera. Not my much but even a couple of mm is enough to run out of focus.
Another plant fossil that looks like part of a fern frond. There is a slight lengthwise “V” to the fossil which prevented me from getting it all in focus.
The cork surface of a coaster for a drinking glass. It looks quite flat to the eye but when positioned so the light skims across the surface the surface texture is much more evident.
I have some pieces of shale that have several small fish fossils with the fish appearing to come out or dive into the rock, not all of them can be seen on the plane that has been exposed by the particular fracture plane of the shale. When blown up too much the fish scale appearance looks more and more like rock texture..
A fairly distinct fish tail.
Some rosy crystals arising out of white quartz.
All PureShot, DNG, mostly developed in Affinity Photo.
It’s clear to me that it is more difficult to get what I want in the way of depth of field with my phone than with a regular camera. So I must put more thought into making better use of shallow depth of field as an expressive tool rather than as a problem to be overcome.
Here I’m frustrated by limited depth of field. The plant fossil has a curved surface away from the camera. Not my much but even a couple of mm is enough to run out of focus.
Another plant fossil that looks like part of a fern frond. There is a slight lengthwise “V” to the fossil which prevented me from getting it all in focus.
The cork surface of a coaster for a drinking glass. It looks quite flat to the eye but when positioned so the light skims across the surface the surface texture is much more evident.
I have some pieces of shale that have several small fish fossils with the fish appearing to come out or dive into the rock, not all of them can be seen on the plane that has been exposed by the particular fracture plane of the shale. When blown up too much the fish scale appearance looks more and more like rock texture..
A fairly distinct fish tail.
Some rosy crystals arising out of white quartz.
All PureShot, DNG, mostly developed in Affinity Photo.
It’s clear to me that it is more difficult to get what I want in the way of depth of field with my phone than with a regular camera. So I must put more thought into making better use of shallow depth of field as an expressive tool rather than as a problem to be overcome.