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Just got a new macro lens and couldn't resist trying this shot.

Anyone else into photography?

I think I need to do one of those and put it up on my mirror in the bathroom.... mental imagery site picture, site picture, site picture!

I dabble with photography, my Dad was a bio-medical photographer by trade, nature photographer by love, my first camera was an OM-1 when I was in the 6th grade. I have forgotten more than I remember, and wish I had more time to shoot (guns and cameras) We moved to digital a few years ago, and that is teaching old dogs new tricks!

Have fun with that new lens... Dad and I love macro... seeing the pollen grains on the bees legs was always fun!

AddyLO wrote: Anyone else into photography?

Does using my phone count?

Nice photo. I would like to see a picture from the muzzle end looking into the barrel.

Here's a couple more gun related shots. This thing is too much fun!

Divided Attention wrote:seeing the pollen grains on the bees legs was always fun!

Yeppers!



Sorry, couldn't resist that last one.

Do you have that middle one in full res? I'd love to use that as a wallpaper. Let me know!

Sure do. The largest I've got is 2000x1428 but you can resize that to fix your desktop. Smugmug also offers several size choices when you click on the image. Go here and select whatever size you need at the top.

in the mid 80's I had a Cannon AE1P with several lenses/filters, one of wich was the macro. Man I loved playing with the macro....plants, bugs, Star Wars figures..but alas, some dirtbag decided the things in my house were intended to be in his posession and I lost about $800 worth (in 1986 money) of camera equipment, along with a few thousand in other unreplaceable stuff. Just didn't have the heart to get back hard and heavy into photography after that.

Cool photos.

Next, use a soft backlight on a pistol barrel and do a macro zoom on the rifling... I love that shot


surv

If "the middle one" was a mound of 45's, I'd like a copy. :-)

mr surveyor wrote:in the mid 80's I had a Cannon AE1P with several lenses/filters, one of wich was the macro. Man I loved playing with the macro....plants, bugs, Star Wars figures..but alas, some dirtbag decided the things in my house were intended to be in his posession and I lost about $800 worth (in 1986 money) of camera equipment, along with a few thousand in other unreplaceable stuff. Just didn't have the heart to get back hard and heavy into photography after that.

Cool photos.

Next, use a soft backlight on a pistol barrel and do a macro zoom on the rifling... I love that shot


surv

I STILL have the AE1P and some lenses in my gun closet...I also obtained in early-'80's and had a macro lens, though that is gone. I was in high school and was one of the two yearbook photographers and also processed all the film for the yearbook/paper. After college and the Navy, I got a shift manager job at a Kodak processing plant in Dallas. They're almost all closed now...the march of progress...digital photography has almost completely replaced 35mm.

I don't miss the plant job c.1992, but I do miss my 1986 vintage Springfield Armory 1911. Sold it to one of my Navy buddies in '90.

AddyLO wrote:Sure do. The largest I've got is 2000x1428 but you can resize that to fix your desktop. Smugmug also offers several size choices when you click on the image. Go here and select whatever size you need at the top.

Thanks so much!

TLE2 wrote:If "the middle one" was a mound of 45's, I'd like a copy. :-)

No .45s (though I think I have a box of spent brass and could do one), but here are spent .40-cal cases ...

Great shots, Addy

I'm an ol' shutterbug, though haven't been shooting many photos lately. I was semi-pro for a few years (meaning I made just enough money from selling my photos to keep buying newer/better camera equipment; never enough to quit my day job).

So what system do you use and what macro lens did you get?

Great shot! I like the tighter spacing of those .45s.

I bought my first DSLR (a Nikon D80) three years ago and got totally hooked. For lenses I've got a 18-70, 50/1.8, 70-300VR, and now this Sigma 150/f2.8 macro. All perched atop a Gitzo 2540 tripod and Really Right Stuff ballhead. I'm loving it!

I've really been impressed with this Sigma. The color and sharpness are incredible.

I love the Glock pic (I'm assuming it's a Glock) 'cause it graphically explains how to "acquire" a target in a way that words may fail.

Embalmo

I think it may be an XD (based on the firing pin indicator)...but that's just a guess on my part.