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American Copper (AKA Flame Copper; Lycaena phlaeas) feeding on Lyre-leaved Rock Cress (Ariba lyrata) - The Dunes, Sandy Hook National Seashore, Fort Hancock, New Jersey
My guides don't indicate these to be seashore butterflies, but in my experience the dunes at Sandy Hook are the only place in New Jersey that I've seen them.
These guys are pretty shy, so I stowed my 100 and 180 mm macros and went after them with a 300 F4L equipped with a 2xTC. That meant MF (manual focus) or AF on the camera back, but sometimes you just gotta to do what you gotta do to get the shot. These images aren't sharp enough to see the rows of scales on their wings, but with MF on a windy day (where perch movement doubles the MFing difficulty),
it's pretty much a crap shoot. :{(
Note: The TC doesn't show in the EXIF because I used a short X-tube between the TC and lens.
I like to put the TC directly on the camera when I use them together in a rig because I feel the TC's rear element is so close to the sensor that an X-tube between the TC and the camera would tax the system a bit too much. In this case the X-tube was not so much for mag power, but to reduce the 3's 5 foot MFD to 3 or 4 feet. Also, it should be considered that the same X-tube between the TC and camera would lengthen the MFD, compress DOF, change the image perspective, and increase the mag power thereby over taxing the glass (with the 2xTC in the mix), not to mention making camera stability and subject placement that much more difficult on a windy day. Soo, much to think about , and so little time! :{(
Another possibility would be a 1.4xTC with the X-tube between the TC and camera which would give a longer MFD with similar mag to the 2xTC (with the X-tube between the TC and lens), but I'll leave that up to the guys who shoot res targets on the bench to figure that one out.
Note: 50 or 60 mm of extension on the F4L 300 (w/o TC) also makes an excellent macro rig for subjects that tolerate a 1 - 3 foot working distance while still maintaining AF and allowing faster shutter speeds.
You can get excellent macro out of 300mm f/4 by mounting it on extension tubes. Only downside is that lens will be even bigger, so it's impossible to use it handheld. With anything below D300, you'll also lose metering and auto aperture :(
SB800 used for lightning, along with built-in flash.
Bit bored. Taking some photos using my old Olympus C7070 which has excellent macro abilities :)
Taken against a white wall using natural light.
This is an excellent macro and telephoto lens. Sharpness is legendary, low light telephoto is possible on a tripod. I have a really enjoyed using this one!
Details: www.sigmaphoto.com/shop/150mm-f28-ex-apo-dg-hsm-macro-sigma
Pacific Crabapples are the wild native fruits that many of our robins and waxwings eat all fall and well into the winter. They start firm and golden but as winter weather progresses, they get soft and reddish. The photo is an experiment with my new Coolpix, which has an excellent macro function. George C. Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary in Delta BC Canada.
Brown-Eyed Susan Rudbeckia hirta with Ambush Bug in Willow Waterhole Project in SW Houston, Texas. May 2009
yes, I know it doesn't have the usual russet spot at the base of the petal.
Today my daughter found this caterpillar on the porch and ran to find me, who was inside telecomutin,g since the kindergarten was closed due to strike. She gave it to me and I took the time off to do some macro photographing.
I first tried to take pictures of it inside, but there was not enough light, so I took it outside on a white plate from Rosendahl (only the best is good enough for my pictures). White plates works as excellent macro background. Especially if they are a bit shiny.
The sun was high and it gave a lot of light and I managed to take some good photos, this one being the best.
The lens is the Canon 400D kit lens mounted on a 58mm reversal mount, picture is cropped, but no other post processing is applied.
My roomates step sister, Ann, came by to study algebra. He had some conflicting obligations, so I took her downtown and let her use my camera and gave her a couple of tips. She was into photographing a lot of graffitti, did some really excellent macro's (that I'm slightly jelous of!) and also photographed some frogs from a calendar so that it'd look like she took some really good photo's. You can tell that she's 15 b/c she described all of her impressive shots as "tight", lol. Anyway, I promised her I'd upload these, & give her full credit, so here you go. There are shots from Kerry Park, Seattle Central Library, and the Pike Place Market. I cropped and digitally manipulated some of the shots, but for most of these it was her who focused and released the shutter. Enjoy!
My roomates step sister, Ann, came by to study algebra. He had some conflicting obligations, so I took her downtown and let her use my camera and gave her a couple of tips. She was into photographing a lot of graffitti, did some really excellent macro's (that I'm slightly jelous of!) and also photographed some frogs from a calendar so that it'd look like she took some really good photo's. You can tell that she's 15 b/c she described all of her impressive shots as "tight", lol. Anyway, I promised her I'd upload these, & give her full credit, so here you go. There are shots from Kerry Park, Seattle Central Library, and the Pike Place Market. I cropped and digitally manipulated some of the shots, but for most of these it was her who focused and released the shutter. Enjoy!
There is no doubt that the Raynox DCR250 is an excellent macro attachment and it produces some really awesome images. Yet, there is a severe limitation that it poses for a photographer in terms of the distance from which you can shoot images. You have to be close to 10cm from the subject to be able to shoot it. You move a millimeter from the subject and your subject becomes out of focus. This puts a severe constraint on the composition of the frame.
My need for a proper macro lens (Like the Canon 100mm or Tamron 90mm) was evident when I saw these beautiful damsel flies at the Theo. Due to the Raynox limitation, I had to immediately switch to my 300mm lens, move away from the subject and hope that at least one image comes sharp in the low light condition. This is the best shot I could get of the duet!! ;-)
My roomates step sister, Ann, came by to study algebra. He had some conflicting obligations, so I took her downtown and let her use my camera and gave her a couple of tips. She was into photographing a lot of graffitti, did some really excellent macro's (that I'm slightly jelous of!) and also photographed some frogs from a calendar so that it'd look like she took some really good photo's. You can tell that she's 15 b/c she described all of her impressive shots as "tight", lol. Anyway, I promised her I'd upload these, & give her full credit, so here you go. There are shots from Kerry Park, Seattle Central Library, and the Pike Place Market. I cropped and digitally manipulated some of the shots, but for most of these it was her who focused and released the shutter. Enjoy!
I've been collecting dead insects from around the house for a few months, on and off, as they make excellent macro test subjects. You'd be surprised how hard it is to find interest at high magnifications otherwise.
This is quite a large moth, so I went in for a portrait, focusing on its eye. This is around 4x magnification, using a teleconverter, macro lens, and reversed wide aperture lens taped in reverse on the end. Even stopping down, depth of field is very thin - especially given the end lens has to remain wide open. Still, it works!
Canon EOS 5D mark III, Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM, Kenko MC-7 2x teleconverter, Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM reversed (tripod, timer release, Live View manual focus).
200mm/50mm, f/11-f/1.4, 1.3 sec, ISO 100 (exif incorrect).
Since buying the macro lens i have found that spiders make excellent macro subjects.
I found this fellow in the shed, so I took the chair he was on outside, took photos, and promptly put the chair back where it was.
I have uploaded these FULL SIZE, so feel free to look at them in all their glory :)
SB-800 fired from Nikon D200. Flash Handheld above the spider.
I'd reached the three quarters milepost on the daily photo project one year ago today. I was quite surprised.
New month: Another camera (well, lens), and another portrait of Oreo to mark the change. The trick to photographing a cat with a black face is to convince her to open her eyes. This is more difficult than it sounds.
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We returned to the D300 for last October, this time with a Sigma 50mm f2.8 lens designed for macro shooting. It's an excellent macro lens, but it's fair to say I usually just used it as a general-purpose eye on the world.
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The 366 Snaps photo reported that "Joan Swapped the Beds and the Kitties are All Confused." Joan's objective was to convince Taffy to use the larger of the two cat beds (shown below, with Oreo), and Oreo to use the smaller (seen here, with Taffy overflowing).
In the short term, the effort was a total failure--Taffy followed the small bed to its new place on the floor, while Oreo began regularly using the big bed, as shown below. Nowadays Taffy's usually in the big bed, with Oreo routinely sneaking in when Taffy leaves (perhaps to steal my chair). Oreo occasionally--less than once a month--uses the smaller bed.
There's actually a third cat bed, by the way, that's even smaller. Taffy uses that one, which she barely fits, more often than Oreo uses the "official" small bed.
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This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps.
Number of project photos taken: 35
Title of "roll:" Oreo
Other photos taken on 10/1/2012: Using the macro lens to photograph flowers seemed like a good idea.
My roomates step sister, Ann, came by to study algebra. He had some conflicting obligations, so I took her downtown and let her use my camera and gave her a couple of tips. She was into photographing a lot of graffitti, did some really excellent macro's (that I'm slightly jelous of!) and also photographed some frogs from a calendar so that it'd look like she took some really good photo's. You can tell that she's 15 b/c she described all of her impressive shots as "tight", lol. Anyway, I promised her I'd upload these, & give her full credit, so here you go. There are shots from Kerry Park, Seattle Central Library, and the Pike Place Market. I cropped and digitally manipulated some of the shots, but for most of these it was her who focused and released the shutter. Enjoy!
Believed to be a common blue butterfly. Taken on an excellent macro day with Ross Hoddinott, these butterflies at Meeth Quarry reserve.
My roomates step sister, Ann, came by to study algebra. He had some conflicting obligations, so I took her downtown and let her use my camera and gave her a couple of tips. She was into photographing a lot of graffitti, did some really excellent macro's (that I'm slightly jelous of!) and also photographed some frogs from a calendar so that it'd look like she took some really good photo's. You can tell that she's 15 b/c she described all of her impressive shots as "tight", lol. Anyway, I promised her I'd upload these, & give her full credit, so here you go. There are shots from Kerry Park, Seattle Central Library, and the Pike Place Market. I cropped and digitally manipulated some of the shots, but for most of these it was her who focused and released the shutter. Enjoy!
My roomates step sister, Ann, came by to study algebra. He had some conflicting obligations, so I took her downtown and let her use my camera and gave her a couple of tips. She was into photographing a lot of graffitti, did some really excellent macro's (that I'm slightly jelous of!) and also photographed some frogs from a calendar so that it'd look like she took some really good photo's. You can tell that she's 15 b/c she described all of her impressive shots as "tight", lol. Anyway, I promised her I'd upload these, & give her full credit, so here you go. There are shots from Kerry Park, Seattle Central Library, and the Pike Place Market. I cropped and digitally manipulated some of the shots, but for most of these it was her who focused and released the shutter. Enjoy!
not an excellent macro but I have never seen a fly this colour before on a painted daisy in our garden
This image is of my cat whiskas I wanted to capture the texture on her nose for a close up and macro competition at my local photographic club it didn't win but it came second to an excellent macro shot of a drone fly
Look at the different number of stamen of the tulips in our spring flowers bouquet!
These photos are taken with my brandnew camera Panasonic DMC-TZ10 and it's excellent macro zoom function. This is my 3rd camera of the Panasonic TZ-series (after TZ5 and TZ7) and I'm really happy with it.
The mosaic is done with the nice freeware Photoscape.
Interessanterweise sieht man in den Tulpen unseres Frühlingsstraußes eine unterschiedliche Anzahl von Staubgefäßen!
Die Fotos habe ich mit meiner neuen Panasonic DMC-TZ10 und ihrer tollen Makro-Zoom-Funktionalität aufgenommen. Es ist bereits die 3. Kamera aus der Panasonic TZ-Reihe (nach einer TZ5 und TZ7) und ich bin wirklich zufrieden damit.
Gerardia Agalinis purpurea blooming in Willow Waterhole Project. Southwest Houston, Texas. Sept. 2009.
Full HD recording (1080i / 1080p) and HD recording (720p 60fps and 720p 30fps), 10MP photos, manual focus, excellent macro mode, etc ... Bargain :)
Reviewing it soon. Some photos taken with it - www.dropbox.com/gallery/4433/1/xacti?h=2adf00 (uploading, sorry :))
Test shot with a 1980s-era Sears 28mm f/2.8 Macro lens on an Olympus E-PM2 body using a Canon FD-to-Micro 4/3rds adapter.
Excellent macro capabilities, Great overall lens with decent sharpness, Aesthetically pleasing macro images when shot wide open (f/2.8), such as this one, and a lot of fun to use!
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My roomates step sister, Ann, came by to study algebra. He had some conflicting obligations, so I took her downtown and let her use my camera and gave her a couple of tips. She was into photographing a lot of graffitti, did some really excellent macro's (that I'm slightly jelous of!) and also photographed some frogs from a calendar so that it'd look like she took some really good photo's. You can tell that she's 15 b/c she described all of her impressive shots as "tight", lol. Anyway, I promised her I'd upload these, & give her full credit, so here you go. There are shots from Kerry Park, Seattle Central Library, and the Pike Place Market. I cropped and digitally manipulated some of the shots, but for most of these it was her who focused and released the shutter. Enjoy!
My roomates step sister, Ann, came by to study algebra. He had some conflicting obligations, so I took her downtown and let her use my camera and gave her a couple of tips. She was into photographing a lot of graffitti, did some really excellent macro's (that I'm slightly jelous of!) and also photographed some frogs from a calendar so that it'd look like she took some really good photo's. You can tell that she's 15 b/c she described all of her impressive shots as "tight", lol. Anyway, I promised her I'd upload these, & give her full credit, so here you go. There are shots from Kerry Park, Seattle Central Library, and the Pike Place Market. I cropped and digitally manipulated some of the shots, but for most of these it was her who focused and released the shutter. Enjoy!
My roomates step sister, Ann, came by to study algebra. He had some conflicting obligations, so I took her downtown and let her use my camera and gave her a couple of tips. She was into photographing a lot of graffitti, did some really excellent macro's (that I'm slightly jelous of!) and also photographed some frogs from a calendar so that it'd look like she took some really good photo's. You can tell that she's 15 b/c she described all of her impressive shots as "tight", lol. Anyway, I promised her I'd upload these, & give her full credit, so here you go. There are shots from Kerry Park, Seattle Central Library, and the Pike Place Market. I cropped and digitally manipulated some of the shots, but for most of these it was her who focused and released the shutter. Enjoy!
My roomates step sister, Ann, came by to study algebra. He had some conflicting obligations, so I took her downtown and let her use my camera and gave her a couple of tips. She was into photographing a lot of graffitti, did some really excellent macro's (that I'm slightly jelous of!) and also photographed some frogs from a calendar so that it'd look like she took some really good photo's. You can tell that she's 15 b/c she described all of her impressive shots as "tight", lol. Anyway, I promised her I'd upload these, & give her full credit, so here you go. There are shots from Kerry Park, Seattle Central Library, and the Pike Place Market. I cropped and digitally manipulated some of the shots, but for most of these it was her who focused and released the shutter. Enjoy!
My roomates step sister, Ann, came by to study algebra. He had some conflicting obligations, so I took her downtown and let her use my camera and gave her a couple of tips. She was into photographing a lot of graffitti, did some really excellent macro's (that I'm slightly jelous of!) and also photographed some frogs from a calendar so that it'd look like she took some really good photo's. You can tell that she's 15 b/c she described all of her impressive shots as "tight", lol. Anyway, I promised her I'd upload these, & give her full credit, so here you go. There are shots from Kerry Park, Seattle Central Library, and the Pike Place Market. I cropped and digitally manipulated some of the shots, but for most of these it was her who focused and released the shutter. Enjoy!
My roomates step sister, Ann, came by to study algebra. He had some conflicting obligations, so I took her downtown and let her use my camera and gave her a couple of tips. She was into photographing a lot of graffitti, did some really excellent macro's (that I'm slightly jelous of!) and also photographed some frogs from a calendar so that it'd look like she took some really good photo's. You can tell that she's 15 b/c she described all of her impressive shots as "tight", lol. Anyway, I promised her I'd upload these, & give her full credit, so here you go. There are shots from Kerry Park, Seattle Central Library, and the Pike Place Market. I cropped and digitally manipulated some of the shots, but for most of these it was her who focused and released the shutter. Enjoy!
VERY advanced metering features are the Shadow and Highlight exposure compensation buttons located on the back top of the camera -- perfect for thumb operation. Take a spot meter reading of the highlight or shadow, and then use the respective button to compensate to bring the tone to the proper exposure -- since any meter only reads 18% gray. You can choose how much, or how little compensation you make just.
Exposure range is a wide EV 0 to 20 at ASA 100. DX or manual ASA setting. Film speed range 6 to 6400.
TTL flash, offering both centerweighted and amazingly enough, SPOT flash metering with the 300TL...the only camera I know that offers this feature. Also available was the excellent Macro Ringlight ML-2.
Extremely easy to read full information digital viewfinder readout. Below the focusing screen in horizontal small red LED's are the shutter speed, f/stop and exposure mode. This readout is EXTREMELY easy and convenient to read. The side of grip has a hidden panel where you can set the LED brightness. On the right side, vertically, is the exposure LCD indicators including spot readings and frame remaining.
Multiple exposure capability, up to 9 exposures possible.