I take a lot of product photos for my work on TubeClockDB.com.  Every product Ir review gets a full set of photos before I even begin to produce the video review.  These are some of my favorite images.

A few days ago a purchased a bismuth crystal off of eBay for pretty cheap.  Bismuth is a grey metal with a few interesting properties.  In addition to being the active ingredient in Pepto Bismol, when it is cooled slowly, it forms square spirals in a stair-stepped shape.  During this process, it forms an oxide layer that causes interference  with reflected light [...]

Here is a gallery of macro photography that I’ve been working on.  I don’t use a proper macro lens.  Instead, I use a macro adaptor as well as a cheap metal ring that allows me to mount my lenses on backwards.  (I know it sounds odd, but search Amazon.com for “reverse lens mount” and you’ll [...]

My 500 GB iMac SATA hard drive died the other day.  After replacing it, I wanted to have a little fun before discarding the drive.  See the disassembly photos after the jump.

Last night I was experimenting with an old laptop hard drive.  I used a USB to PATA hard drive adapter to recover old data off of a 2.5 inch 20GB Toshiba hard drive.  When I was done, I intended to destroy the drive to prevent recovery.  After a few seconds – I had a better [...]

I’ve been experimenting with a cheap macro contraption.  Generally, a dedicated macro lens works best.  Next up is a screw-on filter style.  After that is mounting two lenses end-to-end and lastly is my solution: just putting the lens on backwards.  A mounted my Canon 35-80 1:4 on backwards and it worked…shockingly.  The image is nearly [...]