Week 5- Diamonds & Flowers

Our weekly topic last week was diamonds. I have to admit that taking a picture of a diamond was kind of hard, because it was shining through the camera. This week, it was tough for me to come up with a weekly topic. So I asked my partner, Divina to come up with our weekly topic. Our topic for this week is flower, and it is my turn to take pictures using the lens. In the past few days, I have been looking everywhere for small flowers, so that I can take a picture of the whole thing. Luckily, I have found two. Also my teacher made us fill out a form about our 20% project, and in addition, we will also get points just for filling it out! Moreover, we have been getting more followers and likes on our Instagram page. The only hard part for me is that i have to come up with a caption the goes well or somewhat with the picture. Please, if you are reading this, follow us on Instagram @_macroworld. We dont bite, we only bark! Arf! Arf!

 

Week 4: Social network

This week, I have been very busy fixing and organizing our instagram page. Each week, we will have a weekly topic, and we will post at least three pictures. For me, it was very hard to think of deep quotes to put as a caption, so that we get people's attention. The other challenges are that it was very hard and it takes time to gain likes and followers because I think not everybody is interested in macro pictures. Fortunately, many photographers followed us and likes our pictures. On the other hand, thinking of a username took us very long to figure out, because we had to think of something unique, and very easy to remember.  Then we came up with the username "_macroworld". My partners and I agreed that the pictures we post on instagram are 100% ours! That means we wont steal pictures from other users or get it off the internet. Below is a preview of our instagram page; Our username is _macroworld, so please do not hesitate to follow us. We follow back! 

Week 3- The Strugle

Last week, my partner, Gino had the lens. Unfortunately, he did not know that there are suppose to be three lenses, so he was taking pictures with a wrong lens. When he gave the lenses to me a week after, he told me that there were only two lenses. Then I explained to him that he has to unscrew the lens, so that he can take macro pictures. When I decided to show him how to unscrew it, that's when the big problem came. The lenses wont unscrew with each other! During the day all that I was doing was trying to unscrew the lens. When i got home, I immediately found a way to unscrew it. I used two pliers, however, i was so frightened that if I do it too hard, the lenses will brake and we have to buy a new one; which takes a long time. Luckily, the lenses survived and we are now back on track. Below is a picture of the lenses that we are using. The picture on the right is a fish eye lens, while the picture on the left is a macro lens. if you screw the middle lens to the left lens, you can take wide angle pictures.

Week 2- Taking Pictures

In week two, my teacher assigned us to make a blog in order for us to share what we are doing every week. Our weekly topic for week one is about eyes. My partner, Divina was in charge of taking pictures of eyes, and she was also responsible to post the pictures she took on Instagram for people to see. She stated that taking pictures of other people's eyes was very fun. She enjoyed looking at the different shapes, colors, and textures of the eyes. The weekly topic for this week is about insects. In the past few days, I was able to find insects, however it was very difficult for me to take good shots. The insects were always moving and some of them flew away! Finally, I decided to capture them and put them in a clear container.  Problem solved! These are my partner's link to their blogs. Please feel free to look at them: http://20percentgino.blogspot.com/?m=1 (Gino Delatorre)

http://bartolomedivinaproject.blogspot.com (Divina Bartolome). Below is a spider i put in a class container, so that i can take a good shot.