Match - Not Quite Burned - a photo on Flickriver

            And Less Than An Inch...

Safety matchstick that took its job a little too seriously and went out before the chemicals on the matchhead were completely burnt. I tried a few captures with a close-up lens (bought for my vintage 50 mm OM-Zuiko) attached to my macro lens, but wasn't happy with the results. Focusing with a close-up lens is soooo fiddly, and the DOF is extremely shallow (and images don't look nice when closing the aperture), and I still got sharper and better results with the 1:1 magnification of my macro lens. Extension tubes? From time to time the idea to get a set comes up, but they are expensive, and I'm not sure if I would actually use them a lot, so I decided to stick with my macro lens and crop the image instead. 

This is a quick capture I still took today. Spent all day yesterday developing and editing a previous match capture, I'm checking out Affinity Photo and DxO. This one was also processed in DxO (and ON1 Photo Raw and a little LR). But the usual finishing touches such as signature and border were quickly done in PS (Affinity, while in many ways similar to Photoshop, is totally different in many other aspects, and it will take me a while to get used to it; yesterday I spent so much time trying to find out how some things work, and today I did not have that time).

I also have something that is a little more pleasing to the eye than a burned matchhead, a tiny perfume bottle that looks like a Whiskey decanter; I might upload this tonight ;-)

Size of the frame: 1,6 cm / 0,6 inches

A Happy Macro Monday Everyone ;-)

Taken on: February 26, 2018

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Camera: Olympus E-M5, f/5.6, 0.5 sec, 60mm (=120mm), ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Olympus E-M5
Lens:	OLYMPUS M.60mm F2.8 Macro
Aperture:	f/5.6
Exposure Time:	0.5
Focal Length:	60mm (35mm equivalent: 120mm)
ISO:	100
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	On, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Spot
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 7.2 (Windows)
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