So of course I have to start my reply in the traditional Pennsic-story manner...
No shit, there I was, searching for something more impressive than bird seed to shoot in macro ... ;-)
The salt was close to the same size as the thing-that-may-or-may-not-have-been-a-stinger that I pulled out of a campmate's flesh with tweezers (but which got lost before I could take a high-magnification picture of it to identify it for sure), and once I'd stuck the macro rig together I really wanted to shoot something about that size to show off.
I did the salt alone first, and that looked pretty cool on its own, but there was enough room left in the frame for something else so I decided to add pepper. I sprinkled pepper on my PDA, and nudged one grain next to a salt grain with a fingernail.
The only thing that seemed insane about it to me at the time was that I hand-held the camera instead of using a tripod, but that was just a combination of laziness and stubbornness.
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No shit, there I was, searching for something more impressive than bird seed to shoot in macro ... ;-)
The salt was close to the same size as the thing-that-may-or-may-not-have-been-a-stinger that I pulled out of a campmate's flesh with tweezers (but which got lost before I could take a high-magnification picture of it to identify it for sure), and once I'd stuck the macro rig together I really wanted to shoot something about that size to show off.
I did the salt alone first, and that looked pretty cool on its own, but there was enough room left in the frame for something else so I decided to add pepper. I sprinkled pepper on my PDA, and nudged one grain next to a salt grain with a fingernail.
The only thing that seemed insane about it to me at the time was that I hand-held the camera instead of using a tripod, but that was just a combination of laziness and stubbornness.