Depth Stacking in Macro Photography, Part 2
Friday, May 7th, 2010Macro Photography is a big subject area, and Depth Stacking is complicated at first. I wanted to elaborate more on the process of how I got a great shot of a stink bug with my simple, 50mm Sigma macro lens. To illustrate my method, here is a picture of the bug from the side, so [...]
Depth Stacking in Macro Photography
Saturday, May 1st, 2010I’ve been meaning to write a more proper article on Depth Stacking in Macro Phography- having referenced it in the past. Macro Photography is not for the beginner, though you can get some tantalizing results even so. When taking macro photos, you are pushing the limits of the system. Macro photography can be exacting if [...]
DSLR’s and Macro- Sensor Reflection Problem
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010Since I’ve been doing extreme macro lately, I’ve run into a perplexing problem. In some cases, I see a magenta-tinted dot in the center of my images. I knew it was related to the lenses, but did not know specifically what was causing it- thinking it was an internal issue to the lenses. I also [...]
Super Macro #2
Saturday, January 30th, 2010Continuing on my macro journey to push the limits as far as I can, I went to eBay to see if I could find a better 28mm lens (the old FD mount)- one by Canon, instead of the cheap Albinar lens I bought 20 years ago when I was poorer and cheap. Albinar lenses were [...]
Step Up/Step Down Rings
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010In my insane drive to push macro as far as I can and as cheaply as possible, I bought these two sets of rings from Fotodiox on eBay. Together, all 14 rings cost me a total of $15 + $4 shipping. What they do is step up, or down, from diameters of 77mm to 49mm. [...]
Super Macro 3D Setup
Thursday, January 14th, 2010In the Super Macro bit I wrote last week, I mentioned a bit about the setup I used to get that super-close-up of table salt, at 280x. Here is a photo of that setup. From right to left above: 28mm wide angle lens, in my case- an old Canon FD mount lens (by Albinar) Adapter [...]
Super Macro
Friday, January 8th, 2010I’ve been playing around recently with macro, trying to push further and further into the realm of the invisible, without making expensive investments in equipment. I will be detailing how to do this in a series of articles, but for a teaser, here is a shot I took last evening of something simple lying around [...]
