Joseph Balson

Macro: some useful math with diopters and lenses

I love math, I love macro photography. Combining both of them is at the same time quite fun (to me at least) and useful.

I'm going to talk here about the calculation of magnification for a lens set at closest and infinite focus with any diopter, and the calculation of the resulting maximum and minimum working distances.

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Leaves

There is something fascinating with the sun light going trough leaves.

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The Boat on the lake

One of the worst example of uninspired photography: the boat on the lake. One way to make it more uninspired is shotting the sunset or sunrise.
What in the hell can make this kind of photo, that everybody allready saw millions times, quite different?
The first idea would be to use lightning differently. Chose a sunset with different colors.

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