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Lilly, Your’re some Tulip
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Having bought a Tamrom 90mm f2.8, it has opened up a whole new side of photography for me – that said my wife is enjoying getting lots of flowers for no good reason.
Would appreciate some constructive feedback.
Tulip
Canon 500D
Tamron 90mmf2.8
1.3secs f11
On board flash
Tripod.Lilly
A macro shot of a Lilly. Taken at home with natural light coming in just over my shoulder. I did use a on-board fill-in flash.Canon 500D
Tamron 90mm f2.8
fill-in flash
Tripod
ISO 100
1/5th f2.8
f2.8Brian,
WOW that is really close and a narrow DOF. The colors are super.
Did you use a focusing rail, or just patience?
At first I didn’t know what I was looking at and thought this belonged in abstract. Then I reread the titles.
Would you think about cloning out the tiny yellow-green in the upper left of #1?
How many flowers = another new lens? :lol:
Welcome to the wonderful world of macro :) Hours of fun lay ahead of you and
your knees and back will suffer :lol: But great fun and satisfaction can be had,
lovely colours in your shots, flowers are great for macro but just wait till the bugs
start to appear again :lol:I like the 2nd one… the red really pops out against the yellow with the narrow DOF!
Good work!
pelagic wrote:
Brian,
WOW that is really close and a narrow DOF. The colors are super.
Did you use a focusing rail, or just patience?
At first I didn’t know what I was looking at and thought this belonged in abstract. Then I reread the titles.
Would you think about cloning out the tiny yellow-green in the upper left of #1?
How many flowers = another new lens? :lol:
Good feedback – But what is a focusing rail??? I basically did it by selecting a suitable location to focus on, and then selected a point of focus in the view finder, pre-focused (the lens hunted a bit but I guess thats the nature of maco)
Yes the green corner will need to be cloned out.
Brian,
Focusing rail = mounting plate attached to a rail and then a geared thingee is used to move the camera in instead of turning the focus ring. With liveview zoomed in I guess you can really fine tune focus and place DOF
http://reallyrightstuff.com/WebsiteInfo.aspx?fc=105
They even have one that has two geared rails = one for focus and one for centering.
Found this bit of kit while searching for a ballhead.
Yup, I’m retired and have too much reading time on my hands. :) :)
Hi Brian.
Two nice shots. I like how you have captured good detail in #1 by using a smaller aperture. #2 is an ideal subject for the use of a narrow DOF as there wouldn’t be a lot of detail to be captured in the background. Nice composition & colour in both & they are very nicely lit.
I would recommend turning off Autofocus to prevent your lens from hunting during shots. Manual focusing gives you more control on the area that you wish to keep in focus.
Focusing rails are really only useful in extreme macro situations (greater than 1:1) as the DOF becomes only 1 or 2mm deep even at small apertures & are normally used in focus stacking to extend the DOF by blending images together using software. If you used autofocus the lens would still try to hunt & would ruin the stack.Macro is the best and cut flowers is a very clever idea. You´ve beat the problem of movement in the garden. So bonus points to your wife. I never have the heart to cut my slow growing flowers so i spend hours trying to get the focus.
I would prefer to see natural light on the photos which is quite obvious to me on the first one. Second flower is a much stronger photo although the colours of the first one is spectacular.
I want to see more.Thanks for the interesting info on the focusing rails folks. It´s food for thought.
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