Many of the most amazing photos out there fall into the Macro (or almost macro) genre.
This thread is to explore macro photography, try out some various approaches and techniques, share ideas and frustrations, and encourage each other to keep trying--it might not be easy, yet it sure can be fun!
**Here's an excellent primer for beginners--wish I had read this a few years before now
but, it's never too late to learn something new
https://photographylife.com/ma...
Here's an epic fail that I tried in '16
Pentax K-3, Tamron SP AF 90mm F2.8, at F 8, 1/180, ISO 800--full frame top to bottom, sides cut off for square crop; hand-held and shot as jpeg because I didn't know about RAW then...really dark photo that I barely managed to coax this out of.
Tried again with more ambient light on the subject a few days later
and then gave up
Although I don't have any flowering cabbage now, I do have some different things to try the next time I go for raindrops--shoot RAW, better light, and something to stabilize the camera
also need to figure a better angle...
Tiny critters are perhaps over-represented as subject material, given that they practically demand a macro view to be truly seen...
Very nice example of focus stacking and digital darkroom manipulation here:
pikaia said:
This is a hoverfly on a daylily, with the flower itself providing the background. I changed the flower colour from yellow to cream to increase the contrast with the subject. It is actually produced from four images stacked to give better depth-of-field.
Canon 7Dii, Laowa 100mm lens, 1/6000sec, f6.7, ISO1600.
We don't have any focus stacking software or skilled editing capabilities--still though, Asa's 'hairy eyeball bee' was just printed (large!) on metallic paper and I gotta say she is really an incredibly gorgeous shimmering beauty to behold
evermorelawnless said:
This also taken with
Pentax K-3, Tamron SP AF 90mm F2.8, at F 5, 1/160, ISO 800
He really does some amazing work with moving the camera in/out to 'face-focus'...perhaps he will join us here to explain better than I can, and share some more.
Focus, where I think I want it, is definitely the hardest part for me
How about you?
