The light was right for a little excursion into the forest. I was looking for a Juniper tree that still had some berries on it. There aren't many berries left on those trees because the birds ate most of them.
If you look closely, you can see the tree reflected in some of the bubbles.
Taken with a vintage Tamron SP 35-80mm macro and a Tamron 2X SP teleconverter. Shot at f2.8 but effectively f5.6 because of the teleconverter.
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I was walking around on my wooded property at dawn to see if something would catch my eye when I came across this old wood stump with some hoarfrost on it.
Not being prepared to do macro photography, I hurried back to the house to get my macro lens.
The sun was already peeking over the horizon and started to melt the frost so working quickly was imperative.
It took 13 shots to move the plane of focus through the picture and to make an image out of all those shots I had to focus stack in Photoshop.
Who knew the ice crystals would look like that when magnified. It is hard to come up with something to provide scale and I didn't want to put a ruler in the picture. This is not forensic photography. The frost was only maybe a 16th of an inch think.
After all that it looks like I walked up to the scene and took a quick snapshot. Oh well, however complicated it was to get the shot has no bearing on how much the viewer will like it.
Taken with my vintage Adaptall Tamron 35-80mm macro lens and a 2x teleconverter. Amazing what this old lens can do.
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Being more or less restricted to staying at home, I took to looking for details. Fortunately, home is an isolated property in the foothills outside of Santa Fe, NM. So it was a good opportunity to give my vintage Tamron 35-80mm close-up lens a workout.
Looks like something you would encounter under the sea.
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Yeah right, dew drops.
Not at 6% humidity.
I had to help it along with my spritz bottle. Got up at the crack of dawn before the wind started but even then there can be air movement. Doing these requires quite a bit of patience.
Water drops don't want to hang on just any branch and they don't linger, even a strong exhaling can send them to the ground.
Tamron SP 35-80mm f2.8-3.8 set to f5.6 with 2x teleconverter which makes it f11.
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How many bubbles can I squeeze out of this old Tamron lens? Innumerable apparently.
It all depends on how wet the tree branches are and where the light is coming from.
Tamron Adaptall SP 35-80 mm f2.8-3.8 macro
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