{"id":5689,"date":"2012-08-14T13:39:44","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T03:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=5689"},"modified":"2012-08-14T13:48:24","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T03:48:24","slug":"refractive-droplet-macrophotography-with-the-olympus-e-m5-a-clock-inside-a-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=5689","title":{"rendered":"Refractive droplet macrophotography with the Olympus E-M5 – a clock inside a drop"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the local hospitals asked me if I could create an image that relates intravenous cannulae with time so they could use in a campaign to reduce complication rates.<\/p>\n

Here are a couple of my first cut ideas without any Photoshopping other than some cropping and resize for web.<\/p>\n

In other words, they are essentially straight out of the camera – no tricks.<\/p>\n

The idea shown on this post is to create an image of a clock visible within a tiny droplet coming from an iv cannula.<\/p>\n

You will need to click on these images to get the larger view.<\/p>\n

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Droplets refract light and will thus “contain” an image of a lit object some 30cm behind the drop (albeit an upside down one).<\/p>\n

In the image above, I chose an antique clock as I wanted the gold and orange tones to complement the blue of the cannula, but as the clock was so detailed, I ended up having to crop it more than I would like to make it obvious it was indeed a clock inside the drop.<\/p>\n

Realising this difficulty, I decided to try again with a simpler designed, rather plain clock that anyone would recognise even in a small image, hence the following photo:<\/p>\n

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Equipment used:<\/h3>\n

Olympus E-M5 Micro Four Thirds camera<\/a> with Olympus ZD 50mm f\/2.0 macro<\/a> on a tripod:<\/p>\n