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Comet Cucumis

             #MacroMondays
 #Peel

The mighty asteroid Cucumis, a space traveller from the faraway Cucurbitaceae galaxy, is finally about to enter Earth's stratosphere. Will it burn out or will Earth face its deadly impact?

Well, the latter was the case, but Cucumis' impact went unnoticed by 99 percent of all Earthlings. It left, however, a notable mess on my photo table... The theme is "Peel", and what looks like a huge watermelon is a thin strip of cucumber peel. The resemblance doesn't come as a surprise, though, because melons and cucumbers (and also zucchini and pumpkins) all belong to the gourd family.

The idea was to backlight the cucumber peel and make it look like a planet. To achieve that effect, I put the peel directly around the front part of my small LED flashlight but it didn't stay in place. So I used an elastic band and wrapped it around the peel and the flashlight. That did the trick but the results still looked a little boring. So today, I had the idea to use coloured light and make the longer part of the cucumber peel that was wrapped to the side of the small flashlight look like a red-hot comet's tail. Focus stacking yielded the best results in defining the rather soft pattern a cucumber peel has and it also allowed me to better control the transition into blur on the comet's tail.

The diameter of the flashlight's front part is 1,5 cm / 0,59 inches.

HMM, Everyone, and have a nice week ahead!

Taken on: July 22, 2024

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Camera: Olympus E-M1MarkIII, f/2.8, 1/400 sec, 60mm, ISO 200 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Olympus E-M1MarkIII
Lens:	OLYMPUS M.60mm F2.8 Macro
Aperture:	f/2.8
Exposure Time:	0.003 sec (1/400)
Focal Length:	60mm
ISO:	200
Exposure Bias:	-2.7 EV
Flash:	On, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Spot
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 13.4 (Windows)
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