Lilac branch

[Guemene]

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f/2.8 iso 80 focal length 5mm maximum av. 2.9
cannon powershot SX20 si

I don't how to add more details (techinical for my camea. )These few were available in windows properties.)

An attempt with macro with a camera that does not easily fade or blur the background....

thanks eve.

c.p.

[windrider86]

Do you have anything specific you want help with?

[Guemene]

Originally Posted by windrider86

Do you have anything specific you want help with?

Yesterday I joined the school because I cannot take macro shots well. I was told to use one object (flower) and to keep the rest of the objests in the distance..I have tried to do that with this photo. I don't know if I have achieved a macro shot? To me it still looks like a branch with a flower head. Can I do anything else with the photo to make it look more marco...?

I feel I do not understand dof. well enough. Maybe I am holding the camera too close to the flowers, thus, bluring the subject and creating a sharper background. I understand now, that dof in macro means, moving a little away from the subject, to achieve the right sharpness on the flower? My next step in the learning process, I suppose.

[crockny]

I think for macro you need to be much closer to your subject to give us a really closeup view of details ... I like your picture though - reminds me of an old fashioned postcard ...

[ednorm]

Guemene, that is a very pretty picture to me! I think what you may be asking is what is a Macro shot? What I know about macro is that it is usually life size in the picture frame, that is to say that the subject fills most the frame lifesize. I know most macro shot would be close-up of a single flower from the branch you shot, with that flower filling most the frame, or if its an insect the same thing. There are also super macro shots, shots where an insect fro example is very closep up so as to see the minute details, such as hairs on a fly or the eyes of a spider, these are very neat and extremely tough to focus and to get the subject to stay still long enough to take.

This is a shot I took with my Tamron 18-200 mm lens of some seed stalks that grows on the green moss at the bottom of my bonsai tree. These stalks are less than a half inch in length and about as thick as a fine hair. This is not a true macro lens but this came out ok too me, especially since I handheld the camera for the shot


This is another one with the same lens.


The closer ones I doubt can be handheld, and you could spend a mint on lenses and tripods etc. I guess it depends on how deep you want to get into this type of photography. I am happy with shots l;ike these as i do not need a ton of setup, I do love to look at the super macro shots as they show a world you can not see with your eye alone, but I do not make money from this hobby and could not afford the price of a great macro setup.

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