Macro photos thread--any macro pics

caddyluck

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This thread is dedicated to Macrophotography, anyone feel free to post macro pics of anything. I'm not a photogrpher but have been taking more shots since I started my grow journal. I like it and I had to snap some macro shots of this spider the other day, no tri-pod. I just have a K.M. DiMage Z6, that's all I know :)


 
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Gryphonn

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OK, I'm in. Excellent idea too caddyluck...

This is not strictly a macro. The shot was taken usinga 75-300mm zoom from about four feet away. It was cropped from a larger image. We're not on our own computer, so don't have access to all our photos unfortunately.

 

ph03nix

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rose-macro01.jpg

and the eye of a cockatiel...

Cockatiel-macro.jpg

and just a little experiment of my own with this last rose... spray painted with my very own computer.

rose-macro02spatter.jpg
 

(-)_(-)

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awesome stuff. but i think you mean micro not macro ... isnt macro super big not super small
 

Gryphonn

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awesome stuff. but i think you mean micro not macro ... isnt macro super big not super small
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Macro Photography is the art of capturing photos of small things/objects that end up life size or larger in the resulting image.
Caddylucks images of the Wolf Spider are an example of macro photography.


Micro means really small. :eyesmoke: The term 'micro photography' is often applied to the images taken through electron microscopes. Images taken at thousands of times life size.

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Seamaiden

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Hi Gryph! Ok, I've got two shots. We don't have a macro lens, and the camera that I have that does take macro shots has crapped out on me. So, a guy told me that I can flip the Canon lens for mad macro shots. Crazy short depth of field, but it worked. 8) (I am LOUSY at photography, a shameful thing when one knows that my own father was actually able to study directly under Ansel Adams :oops: )
 

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Gryphonn

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Hi Gryph! Ok, I've got two shots. We don't have a macro lens, and the camera that I have that does take macro shots has crapped out on me. So, a guy told me that I can flip the Canon lens for mad macro shots. Crazy short depth of field, but it worked. 8) (I am LOUSY at photography, a shameful thing when one knows that my own father was actually able to study directly under Ansel Adams :oops: )
Hey Seamaiden! Wow, I'm talking with someone linked to photography Nobility. How cool. They're pretty brilliant for reverse lens macros though. Now I'll have to try with my KM tomorrow.:mrgreen:
 

bonz

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been waiting for this for a while, good thread. oh and sorry for so many at once. dont mean to be a ball hog.
























 

bonz

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........? they were all taken with macro on. some not as clear as others because of no tripod that high. what ones you talking about
 

bonz

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macro is a type of lense that is capable of focusing close( mine 1.5inches) so if its not zoomed in it`s still with macro to get the detail. my camera was only 130 bucks new so i dont think my pic`s would have the detail a regular lense at that price would give. i think thats how it works anyway.
 

overfiend

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i just use my cannon power shot and put a magnifying glass in front of the lens then use the zoom on the camera to get good close ups
 

Seamaiden

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macro is a type of lense that is capable of focusing close( mine 1.5inches) so if its not zoomed in it`s still with macro to get the detail. my camera was only 130 bucks new so i dont think my pic`s would have the detail a regular lense at that price would give. i think thats how it works anyway.
There are macro lenses, but I'm afraid I have to disagree with you on the point. Just because a macro lens was used does not make the photograph a macrophotographical shot.

My own photos definitely qualify as "macro" shots, however, I took the stock lens that came with our Canon Rebel and flipped it around. That doesn't mean that my photos are not, in fact, extreme close-ups.

Btw, my father (a man who studied with Ansel Adams) and other photogs say that it's not the camera, it's the photographer. You took some pretty God damned good shots for using a cheap-O camera there! :)
 
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