My Photo Ark - Macro Dinosaurs

We have been playing around with Macro Photography lately, plus it is too cold to go outside and shoot landscapes. I am bummed, I really want to play around with the Lee filters we picked up a few months back. Oh well, the macro stuff and the focus stacking has been really fun! For this photo day we went to Hobby Lobby and picked up some little tiny Dinosaurs, frogs and turtles. I also got a landscape kit...you have to build it. I am looking forward to creating a landscape for my tiny Dinos!

Speaking of focus stacking, we went to Mike's Camera for the launch party for the new Olympus OM-D EM 1 Mark III. What a sweet camera! Yes, I think I need one. It has some really cool features like handheld focus stacking - what? It also has live ND viewing and the composite mode is amazing! I think this would be an awesome camera for traveling with a 12-100 MM lens.

I used two cameras today; the Lumix LX100 and the Fuji XT3. I really need to nail down the focusing on the Lumix, my focus is all over the place. I did some manual and auto focus on the Lumix macro shots. I am getting better. I should just pick up a Macro lens for the Fuji, duh.

We have a little light box with two halogen lights, well one now, Erich broke one of them. I used a white background and a black background. Erich did some really cool stuff with sand and a waterfall picture. He was all about the turtles and frogs.

Camera: Lumix LX100

I switched over to the Fuji...I was shooting JPEG using the in camera sepia. And since I don't have a macro lens I used a 16 MM F1.4. I had to get really close.

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