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Community => Photo & Video => Topic started by: popeshawnpaul on March 18, 2008, 12:42:11 PM
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It's that time of year where the deer have dropped their horns, there's too much snow for the mountains, it isn't quite fishing season, and the rams are tired from breeding. One thing I always try and do when I get some free time is to shoot macro. You got some?
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I've never really fully understood what "Macro" means. What qualifies?
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Macro photography is close up photography. Some lenses do it better than others. I shot the above dragonfly with my 200mm f2.8L lens which isn't called a macro lens but it is very good at it. What makes a good macro lens is a focal length of 50-200mm and a close focusing distance. Check the specifications on your lenses and you may find that you have a really good macro lens. Lens speed isn't factor in macro much since you are often stopping down to f5.6 or more to get the whole insect in focus. Many cheap zoom lenses are really good macro lenses. In addition, cheap kit lenses are actually good quality when stopped down to f8-f16. So it really doesn't take any money to get into macro photography. Many say you must have a flash, but I disagree. I have never used a flash with macro photography and have sold a few images. Try this out...take your kit lens and set it to manual focus to the closest setting it has. then hold it up to your finger and see how close you can get to your finger before it turns blurry. If your finger was an insect then you know how large it will look in the viewfinder. A tripod is necessary. I find on many of my large big game trips that there is a lot of down time. Most people stand around and think there is nothing to shoot. There are tons of macro shots if you look around your feet...
Shawn
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Thanks. I'll have to give it a try.
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here's a couple of my little one taken in macro mode with my fz18.
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Great pictures. I tried, this is the best I could do with my FZ-5:
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Nice pics Jack, got one of the little guy hibernating and one that looks a bit like the kids looking for a meal. Very cute kid. Mine were once that size but know they have morphed into absolute demon spawn. Sometimes I think one of my kids is "chucky".. But again cute pics.
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This bug ate blackberry juice off of my glove.
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Keep them coming. Great shots everyone. I was going to do a bunch with flies I have tied, but haven't quite got there yet. Hornseeker did an awesome one with a fish once, looks like an abstract painting. I'll have to see if I can get him to get it on here.
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Here's one. I LOVE macro photography and want to do some art with it someday. I have lots of ideas. Fish skin is a big one for me, being a fish bio, another, is antler... but one of my favorite ideas is to do macros, really nice ones, of the different caddis fly "shells" or houses if you will. Some make them out of pine needles, others out of tiny little sticks, others with pebbles, some little sand size pebbles, others with pebbles the size of themselves... my favorites are the ones that build tiny, tubular square houses with tiny, TINY sticks... unreal.
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Well Doug...thats all I had, was this tiny one...you got a bigger version?
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This isn't a real macro to me, but sorta... I have some good bug pics I'll try and round up...
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Here's a macro shot of a fly I tied. Getting ready for some spring trout fishing!
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Not sure if this counts or not, but here's one i took this evening when my dog came to check out what I was up to.
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I tried a bit with the birds last night with that lens I got from you Pope. Sure not as clear as canon glass is it.
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Well, it's as good as Canon glass, but not as good as L glass. Actually, that lens is rated very highly in its class and is rated better optically than the Sigma 400mm f5.6. The Sigma has better autofocus though. I've sold a lot of images taken with that lens. I found that stopping down to f6.7 or f8 makes that lens super sharp. It's not a macro lens though...it doesn't focus close enough.
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It wasn't true macro for sure. I was pushing it right at its range. I was working with a dancing bird working 4 hens and I was having trouble trying to shoot it fast enough or focus fast enough beofre he moved on. The sigma 400 5.6 works as a good macro lens. I took alot of flower pictures with the ole A2E film. That was fun. Maybe some of my clarity came from focusing on the bird before he moved. I was in AV and shooting one stop down or 6.7 I think. The pic itself was fine, but when seeing actual size I lost the sharpness you should ahve in feathers. I was also shooting offhand.
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It's really hard to shoot that lens handheld. Tripod is a must. You can pick up some cheap extension tubes for it and bring the focus distance in considerably.
Shawn
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heres one of them.......not the best, but all the fun is in playing.
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Thats a cool pic Bone.
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I love these threads...keep 'em up!
I've wanted to post a few times in the past, but held back beacuse I'm using CHEAP equipment and am a complete amateur--never had ANY instruction, read any books, etc....just kinda doin' it my own way. A little bashful, I guess...
Anyway, here's a few I found that have been taken in the last year or so....using a cheap Kodak Z700 autofocus, 4mp, 5x zoom.
IIRC, none of these pictures used a tripod...just the 2-second delay so I didn't get any blur from pressing the button. This camera also has NO image stabilization.
I'm sure I tweaked some settings, but can't recall just what was changed.
#1... Bee(s) on apricot tree in UT
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#2. More bee(s) on apricot tree in UT
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#3. Random flower at deception pass state park
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#4. Anenome @ rosario (deception pass state park)
This was taken in a tide pool looking through the surface, just prior to sunset, using the flash.
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#5. Cascade over mossy rocks, Finney Creek area
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Hope I didn't overwhelm anyone with large pics!
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That last one is absolutly beautiful. Great pics.
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If that last shot was handheld that's really difficult to do. Nice macro work. You really don't need much money to do it right.
shawn
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If that last shot was handheld that's really difficult to do. Nice macro work. You really don't need much money to do it right.
shawn
IIRC, the camera was $119 on closeout about 2 years ago.
The top four were handheld, no rest.
The last picture (cascade) I was laying over a large rock, elbows rested. Again, I use the 2 second delay for I don't blur the photo by moving as I press the button.
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Those are all really nice shots, you guys are starting to give me the bug... :chuckle:
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BSCMAN...Don't be bashful. GREAT SHOTS.
I just post what I get at the time, even the mistakes and I think the guys enjoy them. PICS ARE good.
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this was an early one I posted on here.
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I know I have a better one than this that is really close, but here is my first attempt. This is my half Sharpei, Half Rott. Deaf as can be, but sure is a good dog.
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not great but had this one on hand...
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Ive got some more macros but too poor quality to transfer so ya can check out on my website...
http://www.longtatsworld.com/page26.html
but be careful...the link that says nudes contains nudes!
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I dug this out for the sick hobby thread...
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found another. I'm looking for a specific one...
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those are baddass Bones! Very nice!
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Found it....(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fv47%2Fboneaddict%2Fbonesbucks%2Fawe.jpg&hash=42f4e22ff3740df8683c04c33ec33d470991a53e)
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Hey Bone are the bird ones taken from birds in your coop mostly? If so do you raise them for release?
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I raise 99% exotic, and most are for sale or egg production, and or pets. Almost 100% of my stock is for sale purpose. On occasion one escapes and becomes a pet or coyote bait. Most are recaptured, some are not. If its an expensive one, I obviously try harder than on others. Most of my Ringneck and chukar shots come from "wild" birds from around our home. We have enough feed and cover and safetyu areas that they like to visit. We do have a couple as pets from Big R, that also help attract some of the locals with their calls, and we keep them for that enjoyment.
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Well thanks for posting the great pictures of them. It's not everyday a guy gets to see the more colorful birds.
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Here are a couple macro shots I took at Lake Chelan this weekend !!
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They look good. I was never capable of taking good close up shots.
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I love the blurred ones in back of the second shot.
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These are from a couple weeks ago when Timber and I where looking for places to cross creeks without getting our feet wet. :chuckle:
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Wow searchnfor that last one is awesome, almost looks like glass. Very cool
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Here's a couple of gated pipe irrigation.
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Couple more I took of some kind of beetle !!
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Looks like a Rhinoceros beetle of some sorts. COOL!
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I have been testing out an old manual focus Canon FL 55mm f1.2 lens lately. Yea...f1.2. Super fast. This type of a lens costs 1.5k or so these days but this one was given to me by my father. You can get fast old lenses like this on ebay. For doing portraits and abstract macro work, they are amazing. The bokeh is unbelievable.
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robo, that 3rd beetle shot is cool.
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What was the lens you had on the boat?
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Yeah. I'm still trying to figure out how to connect it to my camera. For now I hold it up to the opening and focus by moving closer or farther from the subject. I have an adapter coming that will hopefully allow focus confirmation. I'll have to machine it to fit the lens but it should be a fun project.
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How the hell do you do a portrait with it, the tip of the nose would be in focus but the eyes and rest of face wouldn't. ;)
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Exactly. That's why the 85mm f1.2 L is one of the best portrait/wedding lenses ever. Soft focus and shallow depth of field is perfect for portraits.
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I'd like it for some of my birds I think. The tame ones in the pen so I can wash outthe background of the pens but be right up on the bird. :dunno: might be too soft though for that.
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robo, that 3rd beetle shot is cool.
Thanks, I was doing some work on my lawn mower and this beetle ended up on my sholder somehow so I put him on a tree and started shooting, I think it's pretty neat myself. Maybe after I get some instruction I can get some better shots !!!
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Here is a couple more flowers I took yesterday !!
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I was playing around trying to learn a little more about this camera today and took these. Not what I wanted but getting better.
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Nice pics !! ;)
That first one would look really cool if you zoomed into the middle of the bud and took up the whole frame with it, try it if you get a chance !!
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Here are a few of my macros...with my uber average camera...
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I like the texture of that last one......ALOT
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I took this in Africa.
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I like the texture of that last one......ALOT
I have no clue what type of bug that is....but it was up at the clockum.. ;)
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Some type of cricket I would guess. I like the stuff around him as much as the centerpiece.
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Really nice photo Slider. Great stuff.
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nothing special
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I dug this out for the sick hobby thread...
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Dang Bone, with that header I thought it was a close-up of someone's genital warts! Sure was glad to see the rest of the aquarium pics ... whew!
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no bro...
"SICK HOBBIES"
http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,5783.0.html
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Thanks DOUBLELUNG.
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Here is a pretty cool shot from yesterday !!
Not exactly sure on the name of this beauty but it was pretty cool to see !!
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and another strange plant of some kind !!
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Thats different.
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The old Salmon Berry...one of the only ones to survive the bears that are coming in to my trail camera.
Coon
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Thats different.
Yeah that's cool