About the Image(s)

Camera - Sony a6700, lens 18-135, I did use a tripod placed about 3-3.5 ft away. I zoomed in a bit so think I was around 27 mm lens. The 6700 camera body increases the lens by a factor of 1.5.

The background was my desk monitor turned off, of course, and the shot glass was sitting on my drawing pad.

I didn’t do much to the photo in Camera Raw - clarity, a bit of texture and darkened the background a bit. In Photoshop I used the remove tool to remove the reflection in the shot glass and some of the dust particles that were on the computer monitor background.

This was basically an experiment to see if I could do a still life close up. I was on a zoom call on my iPad and was multi-tasking when I took this.


I was experimenting with a black background set up in low light with close-up work (ok, I was multi-tasking while on a Zoom call). I had put the garlic bulb into water 2 weeks before this to see if I could get roots growing. When successful I thought it looked interesting.and would be a good subject to try close-up.

f/5.6, ISO 6400 1/80sec