I’m kind of getting interested in Macro Photography. One thing is you never have to look very far or hard to find something interesting to shoot. After my water drop shoot Saturday morning I decided to take the macro lens out to the back yard and see what was cooking out there.
Well before I did that I shot this image of the gas stove in the kitchen. I had seen an image like this on one of the training videos and I wanted to see if I could duplicate it. The proper angle is critical to getting a great shot not only in Micro Photography but any type of photography.
I also learned two things from my afternoon shoot that was discussed in the training video but of course I didn’t bother to do either one of them. One is if you’re going to shoot Micro Photography you must use a tripod. I did take my tripod out to the back yard but I leaned it up against a tree and that is as far as it got. You just cannot hold the camera still enough at this extreme closeness to have the image be tack sharp without a tripod.
The second lesson I learned the hard way was that f2.8 is not a good F-Stop to use. At this focal length about the only thing in focus is the exact aiming point of the lens. See the above paragraph. So at f2.8 you get the shallowest depth of field possible. That’s not good when shooting Micro Images.
So this afternoon was a learning experience. I will get better at it and hopefully be able to produce some WOW images.
Enjoy your Sunday, thanks for stopping by and as always be careful.
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