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A parade of plugs (2020)

I must have been at a particular loss for inspiration in May 2020 when I shot those... They are Quies ear plugs that I sometimes use to not be woken by the garbage truck early in the morning, when we sleep with the window open. Our neighborhood is normally very quiet and I swear the trash guys are on a mission to take revenge on everyone around for their having to be up and running so early in the morning!

Nikon Z7, Nikkor Z 50mm, ƒ/1.8 S “Nifty Fifty” lens, 15–mm Fotodiox Pro extension tube. Gitzo tripod, Arca-Swiss Cube C1 geared head. Flash lighting. Single exposure.

 

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A couple of recent additions to my other hobby, collecting watches.

Z5, Z MC 105mm f/2.8, plus 2 Z-mount extension rings.

And a time-lapse of another watch without the extension rings.

 

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Inside a Pentium (October 2020)

Super-macro shot (close to 10:1 ratio) of part of the insides of an Intel Pentium microprocessor. Lots of minuscule grains of dust in there!

Nikon Z7, Nikkor Z 50mm ƒ/1.8 S lens, Novoflex BALPRO T/S bellows. Gitzo tripod, Arca-Swiss Cube C1 geared head. Flash lighting. Composite shot made of 35 focus-stacked exposures, set manually using the Novoflex Castel XQ II focusing rail on the bellows. Stack processed with Helicon Focus.

 

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Charms (2020)

Some of the charms on my wife’s bracelet, collected over time. The gold mask is from Venice, the coral “tooth” from Sardinia, and the miniature gold ingot from, I think, Switzerland.

Nikon Z7, Nikkor Z “Nifty Fifty” 50mm ƒ/1.8 S lens, Fotodiox Pro 35-mm extension tube. Gitzo tripod, Arca-Swiss Cube C1 geared head. Flash lighting. Composite shot made up of 12 focus-stacked exposures, set automatically using the built-in function on the camera. Stack processed with Helicon Focus.

 

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The groove of music (2020)

The groove of a vinyl record (which I thought clean!) , seen very up close (about 5:1).

Nikon Z7, Laowa 100mm ƒ/2.8 2× macro lens, Novoflex BALPRO T/S bellows. Gitzo tripod, Arca-Swiss Cube C1 geared head. Flash lighting. Composite shot made up of 85 focus-stacked exposures (and the DoF is still razor-thin!), set manually using the Novoflex Castel XQ II focusing rail on the bellows. Stack processed with Helicon Focus.