This is literally sugar sitting on my kitchen table. I reversed my Canon 50mm f1.8 on the front of my Tamron 70-300mm at 70mm to give approximately 1.2:1 magnification. Masking tape held them together.
I stopped down the 50mm to f2.8 because it caused some distortion wide open. As it was, to get decent depth of field I had to use a really small aperture on the Tamron, resulting in a ton of vignetting (most of which was cropped off).
And yes, I did arrange the sugar crystals with a toothpick. The full word was a little less than 1 cm long.
Final processing was aimed to make it look like an electron microscope image (or similar) to excentuate the feeling of magnification.
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hmm, I think the sugar gets lost in whatever it's sitting on. I'm sorry, this is a 4 for me. I do love the concept though, just maybe would have changed a few things to make the sugar really "pop".
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