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Old 11-22-2008, 07:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Doc Holliday View Post
Any particular reason why you used a f/2.8 on this shot? I would have used a little higher f, [As I said, I start at f/5.6 for macro], and gotten both wings in focus. You seem to have plenty of light, so you could handle a little smaller f without sacrificing much shutter speed. I realize it can be really difficult to get set up on things like this, they often fly away when you adjusting setting...

I like the crop... Increase the color saturation??? Nice Bokeh...
it was literally my first day shooting with a macro lens and i was going for the limited depth of field like all macro shots have, but i didnt realize you already get that for the most part anyway regardless of your F-stop. ive started shooting most of my macros at around f/8 now so that i can get everything in focus. I'd always pretty much just shot wide open or a stop or two down, depending on light, for most of my other stuff (non-macro). as far as saturation, i just did an auto-curves on it and was done.

everyone always talks about how nice the bokeh is with this lens. i went with the tokina 100mm macro instead of the canon and have been more than happy with it so far.

as always, thanks for the input.

Brad
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