I'll give you some basic information about what I'm upto, then hopefully you can use this to help me.
I had an empty celebration tin - I converted this to a low powered heater, but installing an 11w nightlight bulb in it.
I had an empty lid from a spindle of 100 CDs - snipped two small holes in the bottom to provide ventalation.
One plant pot and special compost later, we have a mini greenhouse.
I place this on my window sill, to give it maximum natural sunlight.
I have a Venus Flytrap. I don't take pride in it, but I do have an interest about it. I got it to flower sucessfully, and managed to make it produce 18 seeds. The VFT lives on stronger than ever, despite warnings on the internet about killing the VFT. It now shoots 3 flower shoots at a time, compared to 1 last year.
Now then I planted some seeds into my mini greenhouse last late Autumn. The frost of this winter must have nuked the seeds. So I planted 3 more in February - and I seem to have got away with it.
Anyways the seeds having very slowly grown - about 0.75cm today. I'm looking to take some decent sharp shots of the shoots, in order to keep a photo diary (if you want to call it that) of their progress.
I have already taken some (which are shown at the bottom of this post) shots - the first two on a tripod, which was very awkward to position into a pot at first.
I'm looking for tips when taking my macro shots. Hopefully the shots below (taken with my Fujifilm E510) will give you an idea where I'm going wrong.
I'm not into the manual setting of the camera (although I'd love to try) - therefore all shots are taken using Auto. I have only cropped the photos, and maybe brightened them up a little. I think I might have used the "One Step Photo Fix" in PSP 9.01, for the first two.
Anyway, here are the photos to give you an idea of things.
A view of the mini greenhouse setup.
A close-up of the seed, in March.
Looking down at an angle. You can see the 1cm line in the middle of the top stud, so I'd say the shoots are 0.5-0.75cm tall.
A better view of the mini VFT - you can see the small trap, too.
I had an empty celebration tin - I converted this to a low powered heater, but installing an 11w nightlight bulb in it.
I had an empty lid from a spindle of 100 CDs - snipped two small holes in the bottom to provide ventalation.
One plant pot and special compost later, we have a mini greenhouse.
I place this on my window sill, to give it maximum natural sunlight.
I have a Venus Flytrap. I don't take pride in it, but I do have an interest about it. I got it to flower sucessfully, and managed to make it produce 18 seeds. The VFT lives on stronger than ever, despite warnings on the internet about killing the VFT. It now shoots 3 flower shoots at a time, compared to 1 last year.
Now then I planted some seeds into my mini greenhouse last late Autumn. The frost of this winter must have nuked the seeds. So I planted 3 more in February - and I seem to have got away with it.
Anyways the seeds having very slowly grown - about 0.75cm today. I'm looking to take some decent sharp shots of the shoots, in order to keep a photo diary (if you want to call it that) of their progress.
I have already taken some (which are shown at the bottom of this post) shots - the first two on a tripod, which was very awkward to position into a pot at first.
I'm looking for tips when taking my macro shots. Hopefully the shots below (taken with my Fujifilm E510) will give you an idea where I'm going wrong.
I'm not into the manual setting of the camera (although I'd love to try) - therefore all shots are taken using Auto. I have only cropped the photos, and maybe brightened them up a little. I think I might have used the "One Step Photo Fix" in PSP 9.01, for the first two.
Anyway, here are the photos to give you an idea of things.
A view of the mini greenhouse setup.
A close-up of the seed, in March.
Looking down at an angle. You can see the 1cm line in the middle of the top stud, so I'd say the shoots are 0.5-0.75cm tall.
A better view of the mini VFT - you can see the small trap, too.
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