Project365 - Around the Kitchen

A friend & I were chatting about my progress with Project365, and he remarked that he thought I needed to spend more time "feeling" the textures of my subjects. That if I truly wanted to take great pictures, the viewer had to truly be able to feel the textures themselves.
So on another blustery evening, my eye turned to the kitchen once more. I attached a 25mm extension tube to my 40mm F2 (Shorty McForty), to get up nice & close. While not truly able to reach the 1:1 ratio which is ideal for Macro Photography, I am still pleased with the results. Let's take a look:

I started with the stalk of a bunch of bananas. The aperture was wide open, making the depth of field remarkably narrow. The only way to get the entire cut in focus would be in post-processing.

One of the bananas, taken from the side. It is awfully difficult to take macro style photos freehand, but my tripod would have been very cumbersome in the kitchen. A skill I still need to work on, I suppose...

The side of a grapefruit resembles the surface of the moon, with all of its pock-marks. And yet, it reminds me of the pores in human skin.

My daughter made popcorn. It looks all fluffy when puffed up ! At this resolution, you can make out the flavoring salts she used !

Pat is an accomplished baker. Look how flaky a hand-rolled crust is ! And with the cherries out of focus, they resemble bokeh.

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