{"id":3513,"date":"2013-02-18T07:13:50","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T12:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/p4td.lightshedder.com\/?p=3513"},"modified":"2013-02-18T10:30:24","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T15:30:24","slug":"who-knew-a-macro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=3513","title":{"rendered":"Who knew? A macro."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/weiw.lightshedder.com\/MaineHome\/AroundHome2013\/i-9WvhCDd\/1\/XL\/IMG_0093-XL.jpg?w=904\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Who knew a flower petal hid within the anther, folded as in a tiny furry coat of pollen? Who knew?<\/p>\n<p>Probably lot of people actually. Botanists. Serious cultivators of flowers of all kinds. Maybe even observant gardeners. The point is, of course, that I did not. I had never looked closely enough, or perhaps, never caught the anther at just this stage of development. <\/p>\n<p>This is my wife\u2019s valentine lily, and I was using wide-angle macro (24mm equivalent, focus to 0 cm) plus the Digital Tel-converter function on my Canon SX50HS to get as close as I could. At 2x the DTC gives a 48mm equivalent field of view with better working distance and larger scale\u2026and with an image like this that is \u201call detail\u201d you loose very little quality. I might have gotten just a bit closer, but not without seriously getting in my own light. Already, on my HD 14 inch laptop display, the anther is 8 times life size. <\/p>\n<p>Camera as above. f3.4 @ 1\/30th @ ISO 200. Hand held (great IS on the SX50HS). Program with iContrast and Auto Shadow Fill. 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