Macro photos thread--any macro pics

[caddyluck]

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

 

[Gryphonn]

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]

and the eye of a cockatiel...



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

 

[caddyluck]

very nice!

 

[(-)_(-)]

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

 

[Gryphonn]

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

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. The term 'micro photography' is often applied to the images taken through electron microscopes. Images taken at thousands of times life size.

Back to the Billies.

 

[Gryphonn]

I should said before, excellent spider shots caddyluck. Have you seen these pics in this thread?
https://www.rollitup.org/toke-n-talk/66316-arachnids-insects-request.html

 

[Seamaiden]

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. (I am LOUSY at photography, a shameful thing when one knows that my own father was actually able to study directly under Ansel Adams )

 

[Gryphonn]

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. (I am LOUSY at photography, a shameful thing when one knows that my own father was actually able to study directly under Ansel Adams )

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.

 

[Seamaiden]

Thanks for not busting my chops on my counting abilities.

 

[bonz]

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

 

[overfiend]

dont have many but i'll give ya what i have here.

 

[bonz]

Eek,... Bugs.

 

[bonz]

here`s some nature shots.

 

[Seamaiden]

Nice, but only a few of them actually qualify as "macro" shots.

 

[bonz]

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

 

[Seamaiden]

Um... Ok. I thought macros were rather extreme close-ups, my bad.

 

[bonz]

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]

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]

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!