‘From darkness, lead me to light’
Caught the evening sun playing on this statue in my living room. Taken with iPhone7 Plus.

Viewfinder is mostly what I do now, but it doesn’t help for unusual angles, especially close to the ground views!
And I am drooling for EOS R5, but cannot even dare to think of switching/upgrading at this point (financial reasons!)

I upgraded to 5d IV a couple of years ago, and I really like it. I fully agree with all the recommendations you already got for 5d iv.
My only gripe is the lack of articulating screen on 5d IV. I didn’t care much for it when buying, but now I wish I had it...especially when I want to get low on the ground to find unique angle for Spring wildflowers!

What!! Where in Indiana? I am in Indiana and long for poppy sightings like these...or something similar (I don’t expect the same scale of course!!)

This is a true macro lens (1:1) giving full life size magnification, so I did not find the need to use extension tubes. But you could I suppose. Here is a sample illustration of how these ratios work.
I have more than enough ‘accessories’ on my shelves as well...thinking maybe I would need them sometime somewhere!! Lol.
So if you are interested to go ahead with this one, please PM me your address details. I will PM my paypal information. Thanks!

Here it is. Asking $140 including shipping within contiguous US. Payment via PayPal.

Hi,
I have a Sigma 50mm 1:1.28 DG Macro lens that I am willing to sell. It was minimally used on my T3i until I upgraded to another camera system. I would rate its condition as 9+ (not 10 because it used!).
I understand that this particular Sigma lens is now discontinued. Let me know if you are interested, I can send pictures and talk price. Thank you!

Thanks all for the suggestions and the discussion.

I never touched 4K video on my camera body (5d IV). But I am going to explore frame grab. I know it won’t be exactly what I am looking for, but should be a good exercise to see how it fares. I am too vested in Canon by choice to switch brands now, but will consider Olympus with adaptor if it comes to that. Thanks again!!

Hello,
I want to know if Canon has a feature similar to Olympus Pro Capture on its mirrorless cameras.

For anyone not familiar with Pro Capture, it is a feature that allows the camera to start filling a buffer with images once you half-press the shutter. When you finally press the shutter, a pre-determined number of images before and after the actual shutter press are recorded resulting in excellent captures of action shots, especially in bird photography, which is one of my main interests.

I am a Canon dslr user, but considering switching to Canon mirrorless as soon as I can justify the switching costs. A feature like this can sway my decision much sooner.
Any experience out there?

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I did this with a twig positioned in front of a flower and by carefully placing ‘water’ droplets. My water consisted of 5-6 glycerin drops mixed in about 1/4 cup of water and placing it with a syringe (bought off of amazon). Really whatever ratio works to hold the shape of the droplet, needs a bit of trial and error

Hi Laroy,
I have a food blog (dusty and not updated since a while). But it’s where I blend my passion for cooking and clicking, and of course eating!! I cook and immediately take pictures after plating, which I plan while cooking..so not many elaborate props or lighting set up. I use window lighting only, and sometimes reflectors. And I eat everything that looks edible in my pictures :)
My suggestions would be to go with somewhat of a plan on plating to create a story.
Be minimalistic in props and keep focus on the food.
Find unique angles you won’t see normally, such as at eye level, or focus on a particular element in the food.
Top down views are too common in food photography but could work well if you have story going on with props and raw ingredients strategically ‘thrown’ around.
I have attached a few samples. For more you can check out: www.cant-live-without.com
Good luck with your contest!!

I purchased one last year. So far I have only used it for water droplet photography. Yet to explore other modes. It took me a while to set it up and understand the controls. But once set up, it was easy and fun to use. Attaching one of the many pictures I took with different droplet settings, flash positions and colors.
I have to admit, I did not attempt to set it up again once I took it down for my kid’s birthday party in the basement!

Here was my recent first attempt at using textures, inspired by Sandy’ process (UHH handle: lensbaby007).
I was so excited to try it that I used fake ranunculus flowers in a vase. I think it turned out well!
And then I went back to my older pictures...and went to town!!

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It looks like some textures have been applied in post processing. So I went to the link and sure enough they did apply textures using an app ‘Mextures’. See tip #10.
Didn’t know about such app before, but looks like something worth trying.