{"id":3034,"date":"2013-07-17T15:25:43","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T00:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/?p=3034"},"modified":"2025-11-01T22:15:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T07:15:39","slug":"rose-petals-with-leaf-and-droplets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/?p=3034","title":{"rendered":"Rose Petals with Leaf and Droplets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3035\" style=\"width: 340px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3035\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3035\" src=\"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/roseBlossomLeafWith-Droplets.jpg\" alt=\"Rose Petals &amp; Leaf With Droplets\" width=\"330\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/roseBlossomLeafWith-Droplets.jpg 330w, https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/roseBlossomLeafWith-Droplets-150x90.jpg 150w, https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/roseBlossomLeafWith-Droplets-300x181.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3035\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rose from Mandy&#8217;s garden shot in a DIY macro box<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I had been wanting to try out some close-up subjects with my hasselblads and I remembered seeing some great close-up flower images that Hai Tran had shown me. And Dale Walsh shared some close-up MF-3D at one of the NSA conventions. So I started shooting some experiments.<\/p>\n<p>Of course after I started shooting I got all my film mixed up so I can&#8217;t exactly tell you what I did! But I&#8217;m going to start over again when I have the time and do some better documenting!<\/p>\n<p>This was shot with a hasselblad on a slide bar. I think the separation between the lens centers is about 1\/2 inch. The foremost part of the rose isn&#8217;t as sharp as I want it. But I think the leaf looks awesome! And the lighting on this setup worked out better (on the leaf) than in subsequent setups, and I am going to try to match this look.<\/p>\n<p>I clearly needed some dust control. The rose blossom was heavy and I propped it up with a little tripod bent out of wire but I wasn&#8217;t clever enough in hiding it so you can see a sliver of it on the bottom.<\/p>\n<p>I built a DIY macro box based on this post on strobist:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/strobist.blogspot.com\/2006\/07\/how-to-diy-10-macro-photo-studio.html<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not done exploring this.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I had been wanting to try out some close-up subjects with my hasselblads and I remembered seeing some great close-up flower images that Hai Tran had shown me. And Dale Walsh shared some close-up MF-3D at one of the NSA conventions. So I started shooting some experiments. Of course after I started shooting I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[335,77],"tags":[23,211,213,158,367],"class_list":["post-3034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-b26","category-foliob","tag-bob-venezia","tag-close-up","tag-fuji-provia-100f","tag-hasselblad","tag-slide-bar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3034"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7199,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3034\/revisions\/7199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}