Photographing Cannabis

MysticMorris said:

Yeah you are managing to capture good detail, keep it up! I find with macro stuff you have to have the apperture up to a silly amount to get more of the bud in focus. In your pics you are only focusing on a very narrow portion of the bud so it will be impossible for you to get rid of the blurrs and the whole thing in focus. You need to pump up the apperture, even if it means lowering your shutter speed alot. I think you could afford to turn up the apperture at least a bit before touching other settings as I'm seeing a bit of over exposure (too much light). Also there might be pre-set white balance options on your camera. I set mine to tungsten and it goes a long way to normalising the colour of light emitted by an hps.

In brief - turn apperture up to at least twice what you have it on now, use manual focus incase you are on auto, and also its a good time to start looking into the whitbalance setting on your camera.

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Stop that. You're confusing me. Lol.

I cant help myself, it makes sense to me in my head but i can see why it might appear like nonsense.

MysticMorris said:

Not sure if this one is any good or not...

Here you can see in the background my impression of Akira going nuclear on NeoTokyo's ass, Stencils and spray paint, not very good but I was learning. I hoped the beam of white might look like it was an aura around the bud. Not the best picture but it was sitting there all lined up ready to be taken so I captured it. Strain is Critical Jack Auto.
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Photography speaking.. NICE DOF (depth of field) Great Boca too... has to be a canon cam.!

Thanks bud, yeah these canon 5Ds make me look better than I actually am

Just took this one today. She's a little sick but i think i'm a couple weeks from harvest so hopefully she'll be fine till then. I love this shot.

wow

just went through the photos.

very NICE! -- wish i had the camera and the skills.

some pictures almost made me lick my screen.. (almost. lol)

keep em comin.

my pics to add

Figure I'd join the party. Here's what I consider to be the best shots of my collection.





















T-Ray

Nice pics man, particuarly like


I like how you framed or cropped this beast of a cola^


With so much focus on buds I too like to picture the stalks and leaves.

Never seen a pic quite like this one, thats one frosty fan leaf! Very nice pic indeed.

If anyone ever watched 'Fringe', I think your plants look like they are trapped in amber

definitely some frosty nuggetry.

got me hooked!!Like some GREEN CRACK, CRACK!

LOL, They said I'' CAN'T SAY THAT'' ON 420MAG.COM

Purple Wreck
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my little girl! send good vibes she's sick =(

Very cool pic, the colours look amazing. Sorry bout the 'man' thing. When I'm on this site I often revert back to the stoner chat I use to adress my fellow smokers who happen to be almost exclusivley dudes

edit - haha probs mis-read your post. I now see you typed 'my little girl' - good vibes incoming!

Just took this one. Even if she dies i know these buds will still get me high as fuck as is! (first grow btw *pats own back)

I love photography and cannabis. That was my first indoor grow. Was a lot of fun. That close up on the end is taken with a 40+ year old lens (FD mount) I bought for $10 and bought a shitty $20 adapter to connect it to my canon 40d.

Excellent work there, particularly dig the first 2 - the misty effect is really cool. And the super-close up is surprisingly crisp for such old gear.

MysticMorris said:

Excellent work there, particularly dig the first 2 - the misty effect is really cool. And the super-close up is surprisingly crisp for such old gear.

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Thanks! I've since bought a tripod and remote so the future should only be better. You probably wouldn't know they were in a grow tent in a basement and no tripod hehe. All but the closeup are just a cheap $80 50mm prime lens. It's probably the sharpest lens I have and is my 2nd as they break easily but I'd happily buy a 3rd when this one goes. I have a bunch of others, but no L series although I rent them for special occasions.

Some of the old lenses are interesting. They're all manual only but on a tripod shooting still objects it's fine. Some of the old glass that used to cost a fortune is almost free nowadays because nobody uses film era mounts anymore. Plenty are duds but every now and then you get one worth carrying around.

Also it's a perfect cover for outdoor growing. "Oh officer I'm sorry, I just hopped over that unauthorized area to snap a shot of this animal/plant/bird/ I was following, I saw the sign, I wasn't eve thinking, so sorry. " Officer looks at tripod, camera bag, guy dressed nicely that speaks articulately, and usually tell you to watch out for booby traps from growers (park rangers tell me that all the time when I'm hiking, warning about sneaking off the trail when shooting photos if you encounter a ranger at a trailhead and they see your equipment). Meanwhile half your bag is full of nutes, a gps, and a container you can use to fill with water from the stream.

So you would be using a digital camera Correct ??? so they replaced the 35mm camera, but with your digital camera, can you change lens, and manual set the F-stops and aperature size and film speed, So I guess you didn't buy a walmart, point and click digital camera, Im screwed I got two 35mm camera's,a Konica FS1 with all the lens you could for that camera new,the other is a Pentex Auto Focus not sure,it was my dads he passed on, I got the camera and all the extra's, now you can't use it, I took a photography class in high school, learned to love shooting and developing black and white film, and pictures, but I sure you can't do that anymore either, so how do you do black and white with a digital camera cause, I would love take some of my Jack Russel, and make him look magnanimous above my fire place. Cause I love that little guy, alot, alot, alot,