I know, it's not a macro (or, in Nikon terms, Micro) lens. But, want to use it that way sometimes.  Though, for budget's sake, i was considering a Tamron AF 70-300mm(F/4-5.6 Di LD Macro), but, ended up buying Nikon 55-300mm for overall value. I tried to utilize a closeup filter, but it was a frustrating experience.  Is there any to utilize for macro shot by using any technique, or any close-up filter, or any other way ?  Do you have any experience to share?  p.s. My camera is a D5100
I am a photography newbie and have only a 18 - 135mm canon kit lens at my disposal. I wanted to take macro shots but can't really afford a macro lens right now. One very optimistic goal of mine is to capture a single snow flake this winter.   Is there any cheap(er) way to take macro shots? Also, any specific advice from anyone one how to go about photographing a single snow flake.
Evaluating $\int_0^\infty \frac{\log (1+x)}{1+x^2}dx$ Can this integral be solved with contour integral or by some application of residue theorem? $$\int_0^\infty \frac{\log (1+x)}{1+x^2}dx = \frac{\pi}{4}\log 2 + \text{Catalan constant}$$  It has two poles at $\pm i$ and  branch point of $-1$ while the integral is to be evaluated from $0\to \infty$. How to get $\text{Catalan Constant}$? Please give some hints. Equation with high exponents How to render from Eevee in Blender 2.8? I have the Blender 2.8 version from the 21st Sep 2018 I was looking forward to render a test sequence but cannot find a render button anywhere? Does anyone know where to find it? I just saw now that a new build had rolled out in which the comment upvote and flag options are always visible. Previously, one had to mouse over the area in order to see them.  Why was this just changed? Is it to support touch screens? I'll admit, it was difficult to find the flag button using my touchscreen laptop running Microsoft Edge.  Cross-site duplicate on MSO: LibVLC.NET in GTK# Given an infinite number of monkeys and an infinite amount of time, would one of them write Hamlet? Of course, we've all heard the colloquialism "If a bunch of monkeys pound on a typewriter, eventually one of them will write Hamlet."  I have a (not very mathematically intelligent) friend who presented it as if it were a mathematical fact, which got me thinking... Is this really true?  Of course, I've learned that dealing with infinity can be tricky, but my intuition says that time is countably infinite while the number of works the monkeys could produce is uncountably infinite.  Therefore, it isn't necessarily given that the monkeys would write Hamlet.  Could someone who's better at this kind of math than me tell me if this is correct?  Or is there more to it than I'm thinking? Partition of harddisk lost/unusable Why bother with the dual problem when fitting SVM? Are there rules for creating level 0 characters? Are there rules for creating level 0 characters in 5e? I've been running a campaign where the players begin sub-standard and 1st Level characters are generated in-game as the story unfolds. I just made them all begin with a couple of hp and 9's across the board for ability scores (since I wanted them at a disadvantage compared to the average human, and to fail at a generic DC10 task more often than succeed).  It was a real grind, with many opportunities for TPK (total party kill) when faced with even a single challenge rating 1/2 adversary (obviously I fudged the dice a little to prevent this). Are there published rules for this?  If there aren’t published rules for this, has anyone tried doing something like this? Any first hand experience on how it has played out would be welcome. There are a number of times in Lord of the Rings where the "east" is mentioned -- the pirate ships, the slave-driven farms. And of course all of the peoples subservient to Sauron who come to fight Gondor and the West. Are there any maps of the East of Middle-earth, and what is out there? Are vacuum fluctuations really happening all the time? In popular physics articles and even some physics classes I've been to, the vacuum of space is described as being constantly full of quantum fluctuations.  Supposedly, all sorts of particle-antiparticle pairs at all scales are constantly appearing and disappearing.  We end up with a mental image of the vacuum as a roiling, choppy sea with all sorts of things going on, rather than a calm, placid background.  However, the vacuum, being the lowest-energy state of a theory, should be an energy eigenstate—which means it is time-invariant (except for a physically-irrelevant phase factor).  So it seems the vacuum really should not be seen as a dynamic entity with all kinds of stuff happening in it, as we're led to believe.   that     A “vacuum fluctuation” is when the ground state of a system is measured in a basis that does not include the ground state; it’s merely a special case of a quantum fluctuation.   So it sounds as if the existence of vacuum fluctuations is contingent on measuring the vacuum—in particular, measuring something that doesn't commute with energy (such as, I guess, the value of a field at a point).  How much truth is there to the idea that vacuum fluctuations are constantly happening everywhere, all the time?  Is that really a useful way to think about it, or just a myth that has been propagated by popularizations of physics? PHP regex delimiter, what's the point? Determinant of a square matrix in a field \begin{array}{rrrrr|r}     b &amp; a &amp; a &amp; \cdot \cdot \cdot &amp; a \\     a &amp; b &amp; a &amp; \cdot \cdot \cdot &amp; a \\     a &amp; a &amp; b &amp; \cdot \cdot \cdot &amp; a \\     \cdot &amp; \cdot &amp; \cdot &amp; \space &amp; \cdot\\ \cdot &amp; \cdot &amp; \cdot &amp; \space &amp; \cdot\\ a &amp; a &amp; a &amp; \cdot \cdot  \cdot &amp; b   \end{array}  I have the above matrix $A\in M_{n\times n}(F)$ where $F$ is a field and $n\geq1$, $a,b\in F$.  I'm trying to find out how to use row operations to make it into an upper triangular matrix in order to figure out the determinant. But I'm not sure how I would approach it. How do I upload a file to an SFTP server in C# (.NET)? Does a free .NET library exist with which I can upload a file to a SFTP (SSH FTP) server, which throws exceptions on problems with the upload and allows the monitoring of its progress? PHP: How do you determine every Nth iteration of a loop? What is the difference between a framework and a library?   I always thought of a library as a set of objects and functions that focuses on solving a particular problem or a specific area of application development (i.e. database access); and a framework on the other hand as a collection of libraries centered on a particular methodology (i.e. MVC) and which covers all areas of application development. I am working in Illustrator (15.0.2 (CS5) or 16.0.0 (CS6)) and when I try to move objects small distances, they snap to the nearest two pixels on some invisible grid. I can't find anything in the preferences. Here are some screen shots: Searching for a string on multiple zip files Why is "bicycle" pronounced differently from other obviously related words? MSBuild exec task with for I am trying to run the following commands as part of an MSBuild script:  for /R . %f in (*.targets) do copy /Y "%f" "C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microso ft\VisualStudio\TeamBuild"   The commands is implemented in an exec the following way:  &lt;Exec WorkingDirectory="$(SolutionRoot)" Command="for /R . %f in (*.targets) do copy /Y &amp;quot;%f&amp;quot; &amp;quot;$(MSBuildExtensionsPath)\Microsoft\VisualStudio\TeamBuild&amp;quot;" /&gt;   The command works fine from console, but when trying to run it from MSBuild I get the error:   Task "Exec"   Command:   for /R . %f in (*.targets) do copy /Y "%f" "C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\TeamBuild"   f" "C:\Program was unexpected at this time. C:\Users\rd-build\AppData\Local\Temp\OH Test2\Continuous.BuildTargets\BuildType\TFSBuild.proj(98,5): error MSB3073: The command "for /R . %f in (*.targets) do copy /Y "%f" "C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\TeamBuild"" exited with code 255. Done executing task "Exec" -- FAILED.   Any suggestions?