Okay thanks. Will have to experiment.

I don't understand why a photo taken with a macro lens isn't necessarily macro. If it only has one focal length and you can only focus it at one point, why isn't it always a macro shot? Pardon my lack of technical savvy@

They are in a post called "Let's Try That Again!"

Thanks for the info. Mistakenly identified the first two pics as macros. I've since posted three pics that were taken with the Macro lens for sure - checked the file information.

These really were shot with my new Canon 100mm macro lens. Now I know where to look in Photoshop to tell me what I actually did!

Well Tramsey, just goes to show that I don't know what I'm talking about! Luckily Photoshop is smarter than me so I checked the info they have. Turns out I shot this with my T1i at ISO 400, a speed of 1/400 at f14 and a focal length of 55mm. Could have been my 28-80mm or my 70-250mm (I think). Next time I'll be sure to check PS for details. Now I'm going to find some pics from the flower shoot where I know I used the new macro!

When I bought my Canon 100mm macro, I headed to one of Toronto's prettiest parks to test the lens. Managed to get a few keepers, I think. Shot with Canon T3i.

White Iris


Pink flower (don't know name)

It looks as though the people have been superimposed over the background. Why is that?

Wow, that's fantastic!

The River Medway - reminds of my schooldays near Rochester, when we used to get a dessert of chocolate semolina for school lunch. The kids used to call it Medway Mud!
I've been in Canada since 1967 but lately I find I'm getting a bit homesick.

I used the Premium Lustre and was very impressed.

Wholeheartedly agree that Blurb is the best. I have used Shutterfly too but my three wedding album books by Blurb are superior. They do a top-rate job - the quality is awesome and I think the prices are very reasonable.

Great pics Allan and thanks for bringing back memories. I was born in Chatham. I went to the dockyard as a young girl and saw the launching of the submarine HMS Ocelot. By chance, the last time I was there, Ocelot came home to rest.

That's playing with semantics! The Oxford dictionary reports that light diffusion is in fact light dispersal - to spread light widely. Since the Fong product is made of a soft white opaque material, it can't help but diffuse the light. In any case, my experience with using mine on a flash attached to the camera is that it vastly improves the flash image, eliminating those awful dark shadows around subjects, That is the case even inside an old cinema where it is impossible to bounce the flash off walls or 30ft ceiling.

Of course, off-camera lighting will always be the best but there's no knocking the Fong diffuser if you cannot create off-camera lighting in some instance.
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The Fong disperser- those things are not diffusers, they disperse the light (although I think way overpriced) does help a lot, but like all that stuff, it does rely in part on having walls and ceilings from which to bounce the dispersed light.
You will never duplicate the look of skidooman's images with anything that keeps the light source on the camera. Aiming the flash at a wall or a reflector- just white matboard will do - can change the direction of the light striking your subject.

So it is not always about getting the flash off the camera, it is about reflecting the light off the last thing the light hits before it GETS to the subject. Whew![/quote]

The Gary Fong Lightsphere is the best addition to my flash when I only have one and no way to take the flash off the camera. I wouldn't be without it.