Recently I have been thinking a bit about combining shots to achieve a greater depth of field. When I noticed that some of the shots I took today of a spider with its prey were similar but had different parts in focus, I decided to give it a try. The following is the end result.
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Entries Tagged as ‘Macro Tips and Advice’
September 6, 2008
My first attempt at combining macro shots
June 5, 2008
Tips for Macro Photography
Recently I gave a presentation on macro photography for several of my coworkers. I have been trying to figure out how to easily get it into blog format, but it’s rather difficult converting a Powerpoint presentation into a blog. The following are some tips I placed at the end of the presentation on macro photography.
Tip [...]
May 26, 2008
Playing around with macro lights
This weekend, while putting together a presentation on macro photography that I will do for the photography group at my work, I played around a bit with macro flash arrangements. Macro lighting is often not considered by many beginning macro photographers – who spend the time working on whether to purchase a macro lens or [...]
May 22, 2008
Fun with the new 180L + MT-24EX and stink bugs
Green stink bugs are one of my favorite subjects due to their bright green color. For more information about stink bugs, see the previous blog I wrote about them. In particular I often enjoy photographing them against the strong red of the Japanese maple bushes in our front yard, which works out well because that [...]
April 1, 2008
How to take snow melt shots
As I mentioned yesterday, we received a rare snow shower here outside of Seattle this weekend. Driving back at night an seeing the snow on the trees, I was excited. Perhaps if the temperatures dropped that night and I woke up early I could get more shots of the snow melting? It’s funny how photography [...]
January 25, 2008
About the Canon MP-E 65
I have been holding this post off for some time, as I was hoping to create a series of shots that demonstrated some of the principles I will cover. Instead, I have decided to use photographs that I already have. In the future, I will likely do another post showing the depth of field at [...]
January 14, 2008
Macro photography lighting
Of all the equipment necessary for macro photography, it seems like lighting is the most controversial. I think lighting in general is considered an “unnecessary evil” by many photographers. After all, few photographers would argue about putting down the money for a good 70-200 or 24-70 2.8 lens (assuming they have that much). However, I [...]
January 9, 2008
Macro photography lenses
In my last post, I started discussing what is necessary to get started in macro photography. I started with the basics – extension tubes and diopters. Eventually though, once you get sufficiently addicted to macro photography you will want to buy a macro lens. So which macro lens should you buy? While I cannot answer [...]
January 8, 2008
How to get started in macro photography
Macro photography is unique from other types of photography in that equipment does make a serious difference. With landscape and people photography a wide variety of lenses can be useful. While certain lenses are obviously better than others, the truth is a top notch photographer can create interesting pictures with even substandard lenses. This is [...]
