Macro photography

[Lao Tzu]

Anyone else into it? What are some cool things to macro?
I've shot mostly insects and plantlife but there's a lot of interesting things you can shoot if you have the eye for them.

[Kwinnie Bogan]

Shit yeah, but everything is encoded on my other HDD.

[Lao Tzu]

Originally Posted by KwinnieBogan

Shit yeah, but everything is encoded on my other HDD.

What did you take pictures of?

[Kwinnie Bogan]

Mountain ranges.

[Sybil]

Originally Posted by KwinnieBogan

Mountain ranges.

Explain to me how you take a macro (meaning a very close up picture) photo of mountain ranges?

[Jack]

^I'm just not going to ask.

I've taken mostly flowers, though there were a few other things, including a section of particularly interesting barbed wire and the filament of a blue-colored 40-watt bulb. The photos might all be decent had I not immediately butchered them all by randomly applying effects in GIMP.

[Kwinnie Bogan]

Originally Posted by Sybil

Explain to me how you take a macro (meaning a very close up picture) photo of mountain ranges?

Haha Sybil, you know I was taking the piss cunt, what the poop man...
...it's been too long??

Yeah I love macro, but I can never EVER get as close as I want to. Still haven't figured out a way to fit those cool old lenses to my D40x, so at the moment my S510 is actually my preference for Macro shots. I've got one shot in particular that I've been meaning to show you for the last couple months, I'll have to make that my top priority when I dig through my HDD.

But yeah, most macro stuff is insects, flowers, and other such stuff that I'm not willing to readily admit .

[Jack]

I took a macro of my nipple once. It looks creamy.

[Sybil]

Originally Posted by KwinnieBogan

Haha Sybil, you know I was taking the piss cunt, what the poop man...

hehe, I kinda thought you were just taking the piss out of me.

But yeah, most macro stuff is insects, flowers, and other such stuff that I'm not willing to readily admit .

[Kwinnie Bogan]

That's a typo, it's meant to say "most of my macro stuff is... "

[Lao Tzu]

Originally Posted by KwinnieBogan

stuff that I'm not willing to readily admit .

LMAO you need a macro for that? ;D

[Kwinnie Bogan]

Originally Posted by Shibby

LMAO you need a macro for that? ;D

Naw, I was just saying tha flowers & rainbows & unicorns is faggotry.

[Lao Tzu]

Originally Posted by KwinnieBogan

Naw, I was just saying tha flowers & rainbows & unicorns is faggotry.

Oh I see. You're insecure. I dig.

[The General]

I would kill to get a shot of a unicorn lol

[Apodyopsis]

Macro lenses are so incredibly expensive though right?

[Lao Tzu]

Originally Posted by Apodyopsis

Macro lenses are so incredibly expensive though right?

They can be, but most modern cameras (including smaller, cheaper ones) come with a "macro" setting you can use to a similar, if less powerful/configurable, effect. That's how I started with it. They can work surprisingly well.

[Sybil]

Originally Posted by Apodyopsis

Macro lenses are so incredibly expensive though right?

They are pretty expensive. From the moment I have enough money, I wanna by the 105mm f2.8 nikkor lens. It's so sharp and works from a distance of about 8cm, on 105mm, still sharp! It's incredible, but it's 800 Euro.

Sigma has a comparable lens, but the sharpness just isn't there and it's also at f4, but it only costs 400 Euro if i'm not mistaking.

[Euda]

I've seen some pretty impressive macro shots of ice.

[Lao Tzu]

Originally Posted by Euda

I've seen some pretty impressive macro shots of ice.

Agreed.

[bushy]

get a lensbaby

[scyre]

Originally Posted by Shibby

They can be, but most modern cameras (including smaller, cheaper ones) come with a "macro" setting you can use to a similar, if less powerful/configurable, effect. That's how I started with it. They can work surprisingly well.

reverse mount is the way to go. by reverse mounting a 50mm lens, you get crazy magnification and 28 mm is even stronger. they make nikon f-mount reverse filter rings, so you can just screw your normal-wide lens on with ease.
http://www.diyphotography.net/diy_reverse_macro_ring or you could diy it. i dont have any body caps for my pentax that actually lock in so i havent done that but it seems to yield excellent results.

[Lao Tzu]

Originally Posted by scyre

reverse mount is the way to go. by reverse mounting a 50mm lens, you get crazy magnification and 28 mm is even stronger. they make nikon f-mount reverse filter rings, so you can just screw your normal-wide lens on with ease.
http://www.diyphotography.net/diy_reverse_macro_ring or you could diy it. i dont have any body caps for my pentax that actually lock in so i havent done that but it seems to yield excellent results.

Wow, I didn't know you could do that.

[scyre]

shot taken just hand holding a 28mm f/2.8 manual focus lens reversed on my k10d. not the best photo, but you get the idea- thats approx 12mm across, on a 23.5mm wide sensor yielding approx. 2:1 macro with decent image quality (keep in mind mine is done without physically mounting the lens and focusing was done by me holding my breath, bracing my arms and slowly moving back and forth, if you have an actual reverse mount ring, it will make life much easier)

[Miaow]

Originally Posted by scyre

shot taken just hand holding a 28mm f/2.8 manual focus lens reversed on my k10d. not the best photo, but you get the idea- thats approx 12mm across, on a 23.5mm wide sensor yielding approx. 2:1 macro with decent image quality (keep in mind mine is done without physically mounting the lens and focusing was done by me holding my breath, bracing my arms and slowly moving back and forth, if you have an actual reverse mount ring, it will make life much easier)

That's fucking cool.
There's endless possibilities for the kind of amazing shot you could get with that kind of rig.

[Lao Tzu]

Originally Posted by scyre

shot taken just hand holding a 28mm f/2.8 manual focus lens reversed on my k10d. not the best photo, but you get the idea- thats approx 12mm across, on a 23.5mm wide sensor yielding approx. 2:1 macro with decent image quality (keep in mind mine is done without physically mounting the lens and focusing was done by me holding my breath, bracing my arms and slowly moving back and forth, if you have an actual reverse mount ring, it will make life much easier)

daaaaaaaaaaaaamn

[Wizzle]

Yeah, Pictures of Keys, Leaves, Flowers etc