shells in the sand.

Yesterday on a bike ride along the Rhine I discovered some beautiful shells on the shore and photographed them.

the macro effect: EOS meets Minolta - part 2.

After the Minolta MC Rokkor-PG 1.4/50mm in part 1, I used now the Minolta MD W.Rokkor 2.8/35mm lens with my EOS DSLR @ 2.8.

the macro effect: EOS meets Minolta - part 1.

It's wonderful that you can use your old prime lenses at your modern digital camera. I have some great Minolta lenses that I use with an adapter at my DSLR.
This time I used my Minolta MC Rokkor-PG 1.4/50mm lens at my EOS to shoot some macro pictures @ 1.4.

flowers in two seasons.

Last year in summer I had the idea to shoot flowers in summer and in winter on the same film.
In July I used my Nikon F-601 and the big Tamron AF 3.8-5.6/28-200mm Aspherical zoom lens in combination with the Tamron Close-Up Adaptor Lens, which is specially made for this lens, to shoot a Kodak Farbwelt 400 film.
I made some macro pictures from flourishing flowers.
Now in February I used the film to photograph flowers, plants, a statue and a person in the snow with the Hanimex Amphibian.
I created some cool double exposures, as you can see here:

 

the macro effect: the bellows macro setup.

Last time I shot macro pictures with two monster setups (part 1 and 2), but this time is much more monsterously, because I used an old M42 Pentacon bellows in combintaion with a Helios 44-2 2/58mm lens at my Canon DSLR.

It's a little bit tricky to photograph with a bellows and it's better to use it with a tripod, but I wanted to make some quick macro shots, therefore I didn't use one.

without the bellows

without the bellows