Just starting out in macro
Apr 18, 2012 10:16:09 #
I'm new to shooting macro and am limited in my equipment. I just got a Marumi +3 to attach to any of my 58mm lens so I do not have an actual macro lens yet. I just wanted to see if it was something that I could do before I invested any real money. Let me know what you think. I am shooting with a Canon T2i 18-55 and 55-250 IS lens. All these were shot handheld at about 8 inches.
This was from my first attempt
Bee on a Grape Hycinth (hopefully the correct spelling)
Hornet
The same hornet
Beetle on wire fence
Ladybug with wings out
Crop of the Ladybug
Apr 18, 2012 11:37:30 #
I appreciate your desire to do macro-photography, and that you have a limited budget.
That said, attaching a +3 lens to a zoom lens is like putting knobby tires on a station wagon because you want to go off-roading. Can be done, but you won't particularly like the results.
The only "macros" that you posted above are radical crops of close-up photographs (wasp & ladybird beetle). Are you willing to settle for poor resolution & uncontrolled DOF?
That said, attaching a +3 lens to a zoom lens is like putting knobby tires on a station wagon because you want to go off-roading. Can be done, but you won't particularly like the results.
The only "macros" that you posted above are radical crops of close-up photographs (wasp & ladybird beetle). Are you willing to settle for poor resolution & uncontrolled DOF?
Apr 20, 2012 21:31:01 #
Nikonian72 wrote:
Actually the only pic that was cropped was the ladybug. All the others were the original pictures with some basic edits in photoshop, but I agree that they are probably not as good as they could have been but under the circumstances I was trying to get a critique on the pics not the equipment that I was using. I am wonder if I said I had a 100mm Canon Macro would you have had a different opinion of the pictures instead of focusing on what I was using to take the pictures.I appreciate your desire to do macro-photography, and that you have a limited budget.
That said, attaching a +3 lens to a zoom lens is like putting knobby tires on a station wagon because you want to go off-roading. Can be done, but you won't particularly like the results.
The only "macros" that you posted above are radical crops of close-up photographs (wasp & ladybird beetle). Are you willing to settle for poor resolution & uncontrolled DOF?
That said, attaching a +3 lens to a zoom lens is like putting knobby tires on a station wagon because you want to go off-roading. Can be done, but you won't particularly like the results.
The only "macros" that you posted above are radical crops of close-up photographs (wasp & ladybird beetle). Are you willing to settle for poor resolution & uncontrolled DOF?
Apr 20, 2012 22:18:13 #
grhound wrote:
Your wasp photos exhibit extremely narrow DOF. That is not a lens characteristic, but directly related to choice of aperture. Same aperture with a 100-mm lens would produce same problem.Actually the only pic that was cropped was the ladybug. All the others were the original pictures with some basic edits in photoshop, but I agree that they are probably not as good as they could have been but under the circumstances I was trying to get a critique on the pics not the equipment that I was using. I am wonder if I said I had a 100mm Canon Macro would you have had a different opinion of the pictures instead of focusing on what I was using to take the pictures.
Your ladybird beetle image demonstrated spherical aberration, which occurs when you force a lens beyond its capability. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_aberration ). You will not have this problem with a dedicated true macro lens, whether 60-mm, 100-mm, or 200-mm, regardless of manufacturer.
Apr 20, 2012 23:12:32 #
Thank you for your response, I am just trying to see if this is something that I might be able to do. I really enjoy the details in all the small things that we usually do not try to seek out. Hopefully things will change in the near future and I will be able to take real macros.
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