Suggestion for Taking Close-Up Photos

[Tony Aroma]

If you're like me and have trouble taking consistently good, in-focus close-up photos even though your camera has a macro setting, try using a scanner. The images are always bright and in focus and can be super-high resolution. Just place the item on the scanner glass and drape a plain piece of white paper or black cloth over it, and you will be amazed at the results. Use the highest resolution your scanner supports, and it will look like a photo taken through a microscope. Of course you're limited to what you can lay flat on the scanner, so you obviously can't use this method for live plants. But if you want to show off the trichomes in your buds, this method can't be beat.

The attached image was scanned at only 300 dpi.

 

[medical_shed]

Hmm, nice idea. Specially for poor folks like me who only have a phone cam.

 

[Guest]

Nice idea man.

 

[greenbudda]

cheers tony just wondered if you have any close up pic's of male/female plants as can't tell the sex been flowering for over a week and stil no signs of either hairs or balls???hope you can help with pics

 

[Tony Aroma]

cheers tony just wondered if you have any close up pic's of male/female plants as can't tell the sex been flowering for over a week and stil no signs of either hairs or balls???hope you can help with pics

Nope. Sorry. As I said, this method doesn't work with live plants. But there are plenty of picts on this site that will help you identify you plants gender.

But here is a pict scanned at 1200 dpi. Be sure to click to see the full-sized image.

 

[guest5703]

wow your kidding. I have a scanner right next to me. What a terrific idea tony aroma! THANKYOU

 

[kurlyq2g]

WOW.

Not bad at all. I am impressed.

With a bit of photoshop help, you could even out the contrast, colors, and all of that stuff pretty swiftly. Making it look closer to a photograph from a camera.

Thanks for sharing this.

 

[J-Roc]

yeah i do all sorts of different digital focus's and then change lots of things once i upload the images.
ur pics look nice

 

[bongasaurus]

awsome idea man. why did it take this long to think of this...