Macro-Photography with a phone and a homemade lens

[tzonedevlin]

So, while procrastinating over a recent project, I decided to turn my smartphone into a macro camera (I waste a lot of time waiting for deadlines to sneak up on me).

I read up on a whole bunch of tutorials, watched a whole bunch of youtube videos and made my own macro lens for my smartphone using an old digital camera and a paper clip.

This is my stunningly aesthetic new piece of tech

Surprisingly, it has worked quite well and I have become a bit of a bore about it. I have been running around trying to get close-ups of everything, literally everything

Here are some of my test photos:

This is the secret writing on the inside edge of the new £1 coin, I didn't even know it existed!

On to some less interesting, but I think still cool shots

This is some table salt, I really want to get even closer to this, maybe get an individual grain

Some sugar at the same magnification as the salt

And finally an action shot!

Cheeky Wood Louse stunt driving a snail!

Anyway, I have a feeling this procrastination may become a new obsession.

I want to continue taking closer and closer photos, I'm thinking of buying a cheap microscope and seeing if I can use the lenses from that in some fashion.

Hopefully I'll find some more inspiration for less dull pictures, so please upvote, resteem, comment and follow if you're interested.

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