Safety Pins Macro

Safety Pins Macro, originally uploaded by catescott.

Almost Photo of the Day!!!

I went into this shot thinking it would be my photo of the day. I worked at different angles, f/stops and exposure times hoping to get something useful. I have been having some trouble with my focusing lately and was really using this as an excuse to work on that. I do like the way the shot turned out as far as that goes. I used my macro lens and bulb exposure setting. I did play around with it in PS to get the higher contrast and shinier silver look (diffuse glow for anyone who wants to know).

Safety pins are now all over my floor because as i was moving about the room I dramatically knocked them to the ground. Dramatically. Okay, i was just clumsy but i was dramatically clumsy.

Anyway, the point of this non-photo of the day was that as i was getting ready to wrap up this sequence I looked up and into the mirror... And now may I present you with the true photo of the day (which will actually be above this posting so you will see it first, DAMNIT law of order and upload sequences!)