Recently I lent my MP-E 65 macro lens to two colleagues at work. Both are very good photographers but had never used this lens before. Interestingly, neither one was able to come up with decent shots from the lens.
Comments that I heard were
“I just don’t have that much patience.”
“I took a number of shots, but [...]
When I first started taking macro photographs, I thought for sure that all closeup shots of flies were fake. How could they get the fly to stay still for so long? After a number of failed experiments, I finally managed to get my first fly shot. After that, I slowly figured out the hard way [...]
On a recent post I received a question over how the Canon 500D diopter compares with a true macro lens. When I first bought my camera, I knew I wanted to do macro but I didn’t have the money for a true macro lens. I wound up purchasing the Sigma 80-400 4.5-5.6 OS lens along [...]
Macro photography is easily my favorite type of photography. Given that travel is also one of my great passions, it makes sense to combine the two. After having taken macro equipment on my last several trips - to Thailand, Israel/Jordan, and Mexico, I have learned a bit about what equipment to bring and what not [...]
Recently I have been thinking a bit about combining shots to achieve a greater depth of field. When I noticed that some of the shots I took today of a spider with its prey were similar but had different parts in focus, I decided to give it a try. The following is the end result.
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Recently I gave a presentation on macro photography for several of my coworkers. I have been trying to figure out how to easily get it into blog format, but it’s rather difficult converting a Powerpoint presentation into a blog. The following are some tips I placed at the end of the presentation on macro photography.
Tip [...]
This weekend, while putting together a presentation on macro photography that I will do for the photography group at my work, I played around a bit with macro flash arrangements. Macro lighting is often not considered by many beginning macro photographers - who spend the time working on whether to purchase a macro lens or [...]
Green stink bugs are one of my favorite subjects due to their bright green color. For more information about stink bugs, see the previous blog I wrote about them. In particular I often enjoy photographing them against the strong red of the Japanese maple bushes in our front yard, which works out well because that [...]
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As I mentioned yesterday, we received a rare snow shower here outside of Seattle this weekend. Driving back at night an seeing the snow on the trees, I was excited. Perhaps if the temperatures dropped that night and I woke up early I could get more shots of the snow melting? It’s funny how photography [...]
I have been holding this post off for some time, as I was hoping to create a series of shots that demonstrated some of the principles I will cover. Instead, I have decided to use photographs that I already have. In the future, I will likely do another post showing the depth of field at [...]