Macro Monday: The Blood Crown

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Creative, Macro, Night Photography, Photoblog

The result of a new experiment with my camera …not the very best…. but still here it is..

Blood-crown Ok! I admit that, I’m getting too ambitious, with just a D90 and a sigma 70-300mm lens with no additional equipment for lighting, to do these kinda stuff. But who cares?!?

Camera settings: Focal length-195mm, f/5.6 – the best the lens could offer, 1/1250 -anything higher would be a pure blackout, Iso – 2500 – higher the more noisy it gets.

Additional settings: A britelight torch, a couple of hands for directing the torch to the subject, another couple of hands to drop the milky drops (ofcourse, thats milk!)

Yup!! very unconventional & primitive!!

21 Comments

  1. Ed
    Ed on August 24, 2009 at 3:30 am

    Very cool, that takes alot of patience and timing to do, not to mention alot of trial and error. Like my lightning shots..:-)
    Welll Done.

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  3. Colleen
    Colleen on August 24, 2009 at 3:48 am

    I could never manage to capture that shot. Great job and thanks for showing us something different.

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  4. Mari
    Mari on August 24, 2009 at 6:10 am

    This is amazing what patience you have my dear.

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  5. Jan in Washington USA
    Jan in Washington USA on August 24, 2009 at 7:47 am

    Man you keep raising the bar!!! I would love to shadow you and your camera for a day! Very Cool picture, as usual!

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  6. cherie de castro
    cherie de castro on August 24, 2009 at 10:23 am

    thank you fro saying that’s milk, hahaha!! excellent shot!

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  7. chloe
    chloe on August 24, 2009 at 10:45 am

    i love it, very creative 🙂

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  8. Laughing Orca Ranch
    Laughing Orca Ranch on August 24, 2009 at 11:39 am

    I wasn’t sure that was milk. lol! Good for you and your patience and creativity. Great job!

    ~Lisa

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  9. dibear
    dibear on August 24, 2009 at 2:22 pm

    Great shot Nivin. That’s pretty interesting milk! How did you get that coloring?

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  10. myfrenchkitchen
    myfrenchkitchen on August 24, 2009 at 3:12 pm

    Still great…a bit of alternative photography..I like it. It reminds me of Paul McCartney’s song “We all stand together” …hie hie
    ronelle

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  11. Nicisme
    Nicisme on August 24, 2009 at 3:34 pm

    I keep meaning to have a go at some water drops, these are fabulous! You made it sound easy, LOL!

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  12. Quinn
    Quinn on August 24, 2009 at 4:49 pm

    Love how the colors turned out- well done!

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  14. Annette
    Annette on August 24, 2009 at 7:23 pm

    Amazing shot! I am just wow’d.

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  15. thecrazysheeplady
    thecrazysheeplady on August 24, 2009 at 7:28 pm

    Yikes! What kind of milk are you drinking out there? Sort of looks like you need to spend less time “playing” with your camera and more time cleaning out your frig ;-).

    Seriously – great shot!

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  16. Olive
    Olive on August 24, 2009 at 9:50 pm

    Hats off to your patience! nice try…worth the effort!

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  17. Beyond Bluestockings
    Beyond Bluestockings on August 25, 2009 at 12:53 am

    Thecrazysheeplady, you’re funny! 😀

    Nivin, thanks for sharing the “how to” of your experiment. Ambitious indeed, but worth the effort!

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  18. flowerweaver
    flowerweaver on August 25, 2009 at 1:17 am

    Amazing shot! Not having the proper lenses, I would have had the stuff all over me and my camera! Great job on the capture!

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  19. Steffie
    Steffie on August 25, 2009 at 10:15 pm

    The trick is of course to press that shutter at just the right moment. You obviously managed to do that. And apparently you have a lot of personnel around. Nothing primitive about that 😉 No need anymore to say that it is a great shot. Still wondering though where that red comes from….

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  20. kateri
    kateri on August 26, 2009 at 5:35 am

    Impressive shot. Though I am with crazysheeplady…not sure that I want to drink THAT milk. =) LOL.

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  21. WildBlack
    WildBlack on August 26, 2009 at 1:32 pm

    Thanks Ed. Ofcourse it takes a lot of patience.

    Thanks Bernie Kasper.

    Thanks Colleen. Something different at times are very refreshing 🙂

    Thanks Mari 🙂

    Thanks Jan 🙂

    Thanks Cherie! it was pure cow milk! 😉

    Thanks Chloe 🙂

    Thanks Lisa! That’s milk! I assure you! 😉

    Thanks Di! you asked the right question! It was because of the red light from behind! 🙂

    Thanks Ronelle! We all stand together 🙂 Glad you did something different too, this monday 🙂

    Thanks Nicisme! It was easy, if you have a lot of patience 😉

    Thanks Gina, Thanks Quinn, Thanks Annette 🙂

    Thanks Crazysheeplady! That was something different! lol! 😛

    Thanks Olive! Hope you let me do this even after 4-5 months 😛

    Thanks Jo! CSL is a lil crazy!lol! Very ambitious 🙂

    Thanks Flowerweaver 🙂 With such a big zoom lens, I kept my distance, so there was no problem of splashing the milk all over the equipment! 🙂

    Thanks Steff! 🙂 Yeah, I had my friends with me for this effort. Red is just the colour reflected from behind, it became more obvious when I adjusted the contrast! 🙂

    Thanks Kateri! But we did drink that milk! We made tea with that milk. It was not wasted anyways! 🙂

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