Another way you can use Macro is for showing off small parts of a LO. Sneak Peeks for example.



tiff

Annette.
If you can get sharp focus on the eye and crop the pic close to it, you've got a macro!! good luck.

now the blue image has me baffled. What is it and its so blue??!!!

Feathers in think???

Thanks Tiff. DS retreated to his bedroom and hasn't re-emerged after trying to explain it to me... Yes to extra wide angle lens. I'll tackle f stop another day

the f2.8 gives you a small field of focus. small number, small focus.

the f4.9 is your smallest field of focus when you've zoomed your lens into a subject.

does that help.
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Its my duster. I was just fiddling with whatever I could find, as its a bit hard to have bub outside crawling for bugs with two overactive dogs!!

oh pmsl. I can see it now.

praps take it to your brightest window and zoom in on just a small part of it and steady your camera if you can to get the sharpest possible image.

good luck.

tiff

Ok Tiff, go your hardest - no 1, I took these just on sunset so I know lighting is an issue, and these are really small flowers but I think I have still missed the whole Macro thing - the second one is my pic of the bunch - your thoughts?

yep. you are right on both counts. the second one and the lighting being a bit flat.

can you angle the camera so your looking down into the bloom just a bit (but not straight down) so you can see the all of the stalks (stamens??) as well as a bit of the throat of the flower. It just feels very cut off with the top missing. can you get any closer and say just get the very tops of the stamens.

there's a challenge for you. Bring a bloom inside if it breezy. hint hint.

thanks lovely - will see if I can get up early tomorrow and find some sunshine - not so easy in Babinda

OK so I woke up extra early to have another shot and change it to manual focus, took a couple & what do you think??

And some more...

Lucky last

Jade. you go girl.

the second shot with the branch, the ant and the water droplets is perfect. Background blurred out, crisp focus on the water and the ant. Cracker shot.

The photo just after that one with the leaf and the water droplets is also a Hero shot. You have got the bottom tip of the leaf in the shot, the focus is on the water droplets, and its richly coloured.

The last shot of the little bug is the better one of him, but the focus its still not quite sharp on him. Weird little bug.

Macro is tricky with focussing, as you can be just a mm off and you've lost the shot. Macro is very precise, and practising it really gets your eye in to learn the importance of focus.

Good on ya Jade for getting up extra early on a Sunday. I'm stoked. Dont forget to put your best shot here to be in the running for the $25 voucher.

mwah.
tiff

I have put an entry in the gallery.
I have loved this challenge I have learnt so much about Macro. Thank you Tiff

Trisha. you've warmed the cockles of my heart. thank you my dear girl.

good luck with it all and I am so very happy that you've learned a thing or two with this challenge.

mwah

tiff