Photography The Macro Thread

[Padawan1972]

A fast lens, shutter speed , good lighting , all go hand in hand.

 

[Ripper]

A fast lens, shutter speed , good lighting , all go hand in hand.

Agreed I have only had the camera a little over a month.. so I am having fun with it.. it will take a while to get good with it.

 

[Padawan1972]

No idea if you have or thought about getting a cheap flash ring for your macro. @Ripper .it will simplify the guess work and will improve over all image. All the spider macros I took were supplemented with a flash ring.

 

[Ripper]

No idea if you have or thought about getting a cheap flash ring for your macro. @Ripper .it will simplify the guess work and will improve over all image. All the spider macros I took were supplemented with a flash ring.

I do have one.. and tubes

 

[Padawan1972]

@Ripper ...Then ..you are on your way! I do find using tubes or reverse lens method that ISO needs to be bumped up a tad more and opening aperture or lowering shutter speed.

 

[Ripper]

@Ripper ...Then ..you are on your way! I do find using tubes or reverse lens method that ISO needs to be bumped up a tad more and opening aperture or lowering shutter speed.

Great info i still have a lot to learn best way is playing with it and taking a ton of pictures

 

[Ripper]

Playing around with this frosty grape crinkle.

 

[KushNFT]

ISO 100, 1/250th @ f/11 with a lens mounted macro ring light which has light either side of the lens and allows output to be varied so I can control side lighting. ETTL flash metering automatically sorts the exposure out for me but playing with manual power settings until you get a decent exposure works well too.

Base ISO for maximum quality, max sync speed to block out as much ambient light as possible as these were taken with HPS lights on and f/11 as a compromise between DoF, aesthtics and the softening effects of diffraction at smaller apertures. Flash does the rest

Few more since I've been playing with my Canon MP-E again:smoking:.....

And a crop out that last one although I was being lazy and shooting JPEG so could have been a little clearer if I'd shot RAW and processed it properly...

 

[A-Train]

ISO 100, 1/250th @ f/11 with a lens mounted macro ring light which has light either side of the lens and allows output to be varied so I can control side lighting. ETTL flash metering automatically sorts the exposure out for me but playing with manual power settings until you get a decent exposure works well too.

Base ISO for maximum quality, max sync speed to block out as much ambient light as possible as these were taken with HPS lights on and f/11 as a compromise between DoF, aesthtics and the softening effects of diffraction at smaller apertures. Flash does the rest

Few more since I've been playing with my Canon MP-E again:smoking:.....

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And a crop out that last one although I was being lazy and shooting JPEG so could have been a little clearer if I'd shot RAW and processed it properly...

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Now that is PURE BEAUTY...... im jealous

 

[A-Train]

@KushNFT what strain is the top photo