a little too close perhaps?

for get pushed this week, @tdaug80 challenged me to use my macro + extension tubes for food photography...

this was frustratingly difficult... i don't love food photography to begin with, and i'm rapidly coming to the conclusion that nothing should be looked at this closely!!!! 🤣🤣🤣

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSf_sEDuzFk

this is the 4th or 5th thing i've tried, and the only one that is passable - and it's probably completely unrecognizable...

anyhoo... unless inspiration strikes over the weekend, i'm gonna consider myself done with this one🍋 🍋 🍋

(ps - the coffee bean is still there - just hidden... i can't stand looking at it!)

[☠northy]

@tdaug80 - thanks for the challenge... it was a good one for me... not quite satisfied with this image, but definitely a good learning experience in terms of trying to identify a subject and settings that would yield some passable results

[Graeme Stevens]

I really like this...my first thought was "wings"...I don't know from what though...

[Brigette]

I’m sure it tasted good tho? But it’s a wee bit abstract for my brain 😬 I can’t figure it out

[☠northy]

@graemestevens interesting... it made me think of the song "bullet with butterfly wings"

[kali]

colour might have helped lol, is it an orange slice?

[Joanne Diochon]

Interesting shapes and shadows but I don't think I'm coming for dinner.

[Taffy]

I wonder if you need to find food with either more texture or more contrast to bring out the structures that can be interesting. This is a bit too smooth/flat, I think, for what you are trying to do given your narrative.

[☠northy]

@taffy I hear what your saying, but the other things I tried ( the hideous coffee bean which I posted and the inside of a bell pepper which I did not) didn’t work for me…. The only time an Uber macro food shot did work for me was my blueberry from last year…. And even that was a bit dubious https://365project.org/northy/365/2021-02-24

[Graeme Stevens]

@northy That would do it...anyhoo, I think it's fab

[Velina]

I think it is very cool. I also thought at first "wings" :)

[Wendy]

Some challenges live up to their name ... and this one was certainly challenging!

[Julie Duncan]

It's made a lovely abstract though! Some kind of fluttering wings . . .

[Frogger]

Well, good. I'm glad that you have been sufficiently pushed. Are you using manual focus? Auto focus often struggles with macro photography. A tripod goes without saying, but I'm saying it, anyway.

[Delwyn Barnett]

Hmm - not sure it looks very appetising :-)

[☠northy]

@tdaug80 yes and yes 🙂... i almost always use manual focus with macro - but there's no choice when using the extension tubes... and technically, wasn't using a tripod, but the camera was stood on the floor and stable...

[haskar]

My first thought was a highlighted lemon slice. Great abstract.