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Tribal Iron

             #MacroMondays
 #Iron

This is an item that I've already used for the MM theme "Made of Metal" back in 2017: it's a broad, rustic-looking bracelet/bangle made of iron (please see the first comment).

Since I didn't want to reuse the "volcano" idea, I decided to focus on the interesting-looking forged surface of the bracelet which reminds me of an ancient secret code or tribal drawings. It's about the iron the bracelet was made of, after all, not the holes that are a design element. 

Even though it doesn't look like a focus stacking image, it is one, made of 15 single Raw shots combined in Helicon Focus (method B, radius 8, smoothing 1). At first, I had taken a few images with the Laowa Ultra Macro lens but the DOF, even when stopped down, was way too shallow for a theme that highlights a special material. 

The width, from the bracelet's outer edge to the edge of one of the aforementioned holes (in the upper right corner), is exactly 1 cm/0,39 inches. I used the translucent red chocolate box lid as a background, and some blue light (from the left, created with the semi-translucent blue snack can lid) as colour dashes. To highlight the bracelet's surface texture, I illuminated it with my small LED flashlight (set on "spotlight") from above which added a silvery look to it. Actually, the bracelet is of that quite typical, darkish-grey colour one would expect from something made of iron. 

HMM, Everyone! I'll catch up with you a little later!

Taken on: March 17, 2024

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Camera: Olympus E-M1MarkIII, f/3.5, 0.5 sec, 60mm, ISO 200 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Olympus E-M1MarkIII
Lens:	OLYMPUS M.60mm F2.8 Macro
Aperture:	f/3.5
Exposure Time:	0.5
Focal Length:	60mm
ISO:	200
Exposure Bias:	-0.3 EV
Flash:	On, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Spot
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 13.2 (Windows)
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