Macro Photography

I just bought a Canon SX110 yesterday and curious about one thing when doing macro :

Do I zoom up fully or physically move the camera right next to the subject? Does it make a difference?
 
Dolby said:
I just bought a Canon SX110 yesterday and curious about one thing when doing macro :

Do I zoom up fully or physically move the camera right next to the subject? Does it make a difference?
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Get as close as you can while still able to use the zoom... you'll find the further you zoom in, the more you're going to need to move back, at some point you'll find the perfect distance to zoom ratio :)

I had a Nikon T6 on my Panasonic FZ20 - it allowed me to use the zoom from a lot closer than I normally would've been able too.
 
Manual focus and rocking back and forth to get focus ftw. Only issue I have is my tripod sucks so if I use that to focus it's very tough to keep going.
 
Probably only just qualifies as a macro but:
spider.jpg

What kind of spider is this brute?
 
So I was sitting outside having a smoke at lunch today and I saw something move out the corner of my eye. A male button spider was trying to entice a female into some afternoon activities.

I ran to my old man and asked him for his camera (300D), but by the time I got back it was over, She had decided she wanted him as food instead. :eek:



Love the patterns on the abodomen though.



Anyway, my Dad came out to look at what I was doing, and told me I should head over to his house and he would show me something there in the bushes (yes I know that sounds odd!). Found these though, and there are hundreds of them. I have no idea what they are? Does anyone have any know?

Biggest one I could find:


From the other side:


Not really sure if this is macro, but show what the smaller ones look like:


EDIT: Think its a type of Orb web spider from searching google
 
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Not sure, I know Big-Al uses the tubes, but I he also uses macro lens.

I'll be trying with a tamaron 70-300mm to try and see how they work
 
mercurial said:
I have no idea if it will perform as well or not. I'm hoping some people here who have used them can let me know their results.
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Still waiting for claire to go get me the tubes to use, but found this:

http://www.slrphotographyguide.com/camera/lens/extensiontube.shtml
There is no difference in the quality of the photograph between a brand or generic tube, however when you use a generic you will loose automatic focus. Therefore the downside of going the cheaper is that you'll need to take all your macro shots in manual mode.
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Dont think manual focus will be a problem though
 
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