Macro Photography

Still need to work on the focusing...

Spider012.jpg
 
Interesting - nice to see that someone tried it.
But that is by far not a sleek and elegant looking solution for taking pictures with :p
 
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I do almost all my macro shots using a reversed 18-55 stacked on a 300mm. Lovely results sometimes though the focus area is a little rough.

That's a beautiful shot of the bee!
 
marine1 said:
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Settings and camera and lens please?
Amazing
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I'm thinking it was an Olympus Zuiko Digital ED 14-42mm F3.5-5.6 lens on a Olympus E-620. Taken at 1/80s at f/5.6 with a focal length of 42mm. ISO . . . 200.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kalvaer/3966024228/meta/
 
LOL, Nice one guys :). There is one catch though. I had a Raynox DCR-250 Super Macro Conversion lens attached to the 14-42mm which obviously would not show up on the Meta Data.

It does cause some vignetting though (as do my extension tubes) which can be seen on the top left which I couldn't crop out and don't know how to edit out with PS as many of you here could.

I'm really not to technical at all, But would any of you know just how that conversion lens would "change" the lens settings ???? Its has a 8 Diopter magnification (remember as well that on the Oly E620, even though it says 14-42mm Its equivalent to 28-84 for all the none 4/3rd users to get the same settings)
 
I'm sure there's a formula somewhere out there for what happens when you do that... perhaps Bwana knows - he's smarter than the average bear.
 
AntiThesis said:
I'm sure there's a formula somewhere out there for what happens when you do that... perhaps Bwana knows - he's smarter than the average bear.
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The hell he is :p

I'm sure one of the resident pixel peepers will know though.
 
I like "FIRE". Nice colour contrast, composition... interesting to look at. The second one is a bit underexposed. Probably all that white tricking your camera's meter. Try dialling in +1 exposure compensation, when there is a lot of white. Underexposure can, to a degree, be fixed in post, but overexposure is gone forever.

I tried to fix your photo in PS:
http://mybroadband.co.za/photos/data/870/3968191465_a3f3e3ae2b_b_.jpg
3968191465_a3f3e3ae2b_b_.jpg

I used Photoshop, but you can use anything.
 
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