I'm still practicing with my macro lens and tonight I worked on some red Gerbera Daisies. I tried using different apertures, shutter speeds, and distances from the subject. One thing I have learned is that the macro lens has a very shallow depth of field, even with a small aperture. I wanted to use natural …
Day 144 – More Experimenting – Macro and Water
This blog I owe to Viveka at http://mygulitypleasures.wordpress.com/. She sent me a video on macro photography that inspired me (click here). I thought it would be fun to experiment with some of the colors. I didn't have a lot of time to work with it and I don't have a light box (still working on getting …
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Day 143 – Hazelnut Macro
I picked up a couple of hazelnuts off the sidewalk today and thought they would be a good subject to practice with my new macro lens. These nuts were about the size of a dime and I was happy to see how well the macro lens picked up the detail on such a small subject. …
Day 142 – Mowing the Lawn
We have a family of rock chucks, aka yellow-bellied marmots, aka whistling pigs, who live in a field behind our office. I haven't seen them for a while, but today they came out to eat. They look as if they're mowing the lawn - head down in the grass, grazing forward. It appears we have …
Day 141 – Macro Lens
While I was in Portland, I picked up a new macro lens at Pro Photo Supply. The people there were very helpful and knowledgeable and I narrowed it down to a 90mm Tamron macro lens. It helped that there is a $50 rebate going on now. Today I went out to try it out. It …
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