Submissions MangaHelpers Art Contest #17-18: Macro Photography

[Marmalade]

MangaHelpers Art Contest #17-18: Macro Photography


HI everyone! And welcome to this new art contest.. It's a Photography contest with the theme Macro! In other words, close-up photography, typically of small objects or animals. It's your task to capture a picture like this.
The deadline is July 5th, at 23:00 GMT.

By: Anete Lusina


Category: Photography
Theme: Macro​

What do I need to know before submission?

• All members are welcome to join the contest. There is no minimum post or user status you need to have to participate.
• Entries for the contest must be posted in this thread.
• Each participant can only submit ONE ENTRY and it should be a new piece. So don’t try to be smart and enter a piece used in past contests.
• Use MangaHelpers’ Media Gallery to upload your entries. Any problem with uploading, let us know.
• Submissions not following the weeks theme will result in disqualification. If you have any question about the contest, you can ask it here.
• Color corrections and native camera filters can be used, but no excessive manipulation in Photoshop and similar softwares.
• No excessive, suggestive, spoiler, or porn-related imagery in the contest.
• Plagiarizing will result in immediate disqualification from this contest and possibly future contests also. Leadership point deductions, loss of artist status and badges, and/or account bans may also occur.
• Submission is open until July 5th, 2020, at 23:00 (GMT)

How do I upload and submit my entry?

1. Go to this gallery.
2. Click the "Upload Image" button.
3. After upload is completed, you'll be shown your uploaded image with an edit box for commentary/additional information. After adding necessary information you wish, click "Save Media" and you'll be brought to the sharing media page.
4. Choose the "Share BB Code" and post within this thread; choosing this will save you having to select any additional codes you want to post here.
5. For more information on how to use the media gallery and uploading, go HERE.

Post Format:

"Theme Name" - "Work Title" by "Artist Name"

(Large size thumbnail - upload image to image gallery.)

"Comments"

"Credits"

Example

Female - Sayuri by Leen


Stock/Credits: Planetrenders.net

Voting Details:

• Voting will commence after submission period is over, that is July 5th, 2020, at 23:00 (GMT).
• Announcement of winners, next contest dates and theme will be done soon after the voting period is over.

Goodluck everyone!

 

[Marmalade]

Deep Red by MarmaladeSky

Spoiler: Comments and Credits

To be honest, this was a lucky shot. Went out for a walk, saw this flower and went for it. Took this picture with my phone.

Spoiler: The whole flower

It was kind of high so taking a picture was a pain.

 

[revo]

MangaHelpers Art Contest: Macro Photography - "Baby paw" by revo

Spoiler: Comments & Credits

Not the best pic ever, found this photo I took by pure luck honestly, it's one of my cat's paw when she just got adopted years ago.

Spoiler: The cat

 

[Totinona]

MangaHelpers Art Contest: Macro Photography - "Flower of the past" by Totinona

Spoiler: Comment and credits

I took this picture maybe 11 years ago..? I wanted to try and take a new picture but I didn't do it when the weather was nice and now it is cold and raining so I'll go with this one.

 

[Purity of Magi]

MangaHelpers Art Contest: Macro Photography - "Farfalla" by Purity of Magi

Spoiler: commentary & credits

Okay this is kinda funny, but to be completely fair I wasn't even planning to participate in this contest lol. However, today I literally was just randomly checking in my album and I found this image, which was taken approx. 5/6 years ago. This random Farfalla managed somehow to find its way to get inside the house, and I managed to make a photo of its pretty colors. Probably the closest photo I have taken from Farfalla so far. So there you go a submission when Farfalla was still pretty, young looking and less moody. '3'/

Of course, she has probably become a bit.... older as we might have seen..... and lost her pretty colors....... poor Farfalla -3-

 

[TrienDarkform]

Macro Photography: "Fine Craftsmanship" by Trien

Spoiler: Comments

Thought I'd go for something a bit different, given that macro photography often lends itself to pictures of flora and fauna. I have a picture of a raindrop on a leaf (not too dissimilar from the example photo at the top of the thread) which I thought about submitting... but it's been printed out in large size and hanging on the wall at my office for many years now, so it didn't feel quite right.

Hence, for a bit of different scenery, something mechanical instead. This is a shot of the balance wheel assembly from a mechanical wristwatch. Basically a weight that oscillates back and forth on the coiled spring, it serves the same purpose (on a much smaller scale) as the pendulum in a large clock, acting as the timekeeper to ensure that the wound-up main power spring (not visible in picture) releases its energy at a controlled rate, so the watch ticks at the right speed.

While much of the parts can be and are manufactured by machinery these days, something of this size still has to be assembled by hand. And a skilled watchmaker can properly lubricate, position, and adjust the balance of all the parts, so that it runs no more than in the range of 5 seconds difference from actual time per day, regardless of the orientation of the watch. Now 5 seconds might sound like a major inaccuracy these days, but keep in mind this is nothing but springs and gears, with no electronics, and the majority of the parts are smaller than your pinky nail--and it's achieving only a 58 parts per million inaccuracy. I think that's pretty impressive craftsmanship.

Camera: Good ol' Lumix DMC-LF1, still mostly working so far!
Not a super expensive watch (though not a super cheap one either), so the internal finishing isn't as fancy as the really nice ones. For something like that, have a look at say the A. Lange & Söhne Datograph (going price, 5-figures and up... )

 

[Kiki]

Macro Photography - "Teratai" by Kiki

Spoiler: comment&credit

Lotus in Bahasa Indonesia is Teratai. I really love lotus. It's rare to see them here so when I found this at my university, I felt happy and turned on my photographer mode lol.

credit: photo by me, crop&resize: ezgif