Macro photography

[5300cs]

Ok folks, let's see some of your macro shots.

Just pens for the time being

 

[5300cs]

Here's some nature

 

[JDar]

Moth on thistle (Carduus nutans)

 

[JDar]

Find the lizard

at Three Rivers Petroglyphs park, NM. Some of the lizards are melanistic and harder to spot than this one.

 

[robotrenegade]

 

[DreaminDirector]

 

[JDar]

water spurt

That water spurt is great! Care to tell us how you did that?

 

[DreaminDirector]

That water spurt is great! Care to tell us how you did that?

Sure! I have to admit, it was a "happy accident". I was shooting just random things and I told my dad to turn on the water so I could test the focus. Well, everything looked good so I went to snap the shot and my dad turned away to sneeze. He took his hand off the knob and the water stopped as I released the shutter. And BANG, Happy accident.

I do also recommend anyone who's looking to switch to dSLRs to look into the Nikon D70. I had some of their glass so it was a natural choice for me to move to the Nikon dSLR. The shot was actually taken with a Lensbaby lens (http://www.lensbaby.com). The lensbaby has made me fall in love with digital photography. It turns your expensive camera into a Holga.

 

[SilentPanda]

What is macro photography? I have that option on my camera but never used it... I'm a big fan of "auto" because otherwise I make it look worse...

Ohhhh nevermind... I did that whole google thing I hear about from the youngin's...

http://www.photo.net/macro/primer

This is actually what I've been wanting to do... maybe I'll have to play with it when I get home...

 

[JDar]

macro moss

Interesting url on macros, SilentPanda. Give it a try, but I don't recommend using all his examples!

Here is a bit of moss, interesting enough to me to macro, seen on a foggy day walk this am:

 

[virividox]

 

[johnnyjibbs]

This shot was taken with a Canon Powershot S500. I couldn't quite get the focus right on the moth, but then this isn't even an SLR camera. This comes from high in the French Alps.

 

[Blackhawk]

Macro photography

Here's my contribution......

 

[Moxiemike]

Here's my contribution......

Nice shots all. This one should be popular here:

 

[stevedude]

im a very amatuer "photographer" (if you want to call me that ), i got my first digital camera about 2 weeks ago. its a small, compact 6.1 MP camera, (an olympus c-60 zoom)....well..im still figuring it out...but here's a 'macro' i took!!

 

[G4scott]

A photo my Dad took of these eggs earlier actually won something in the Valley Land Fund Wildlife Photo Contest or something like that... I can't remember what place it got, though...

Oh yeah, Moxie... My avatar came from a picture of yours... It was actually with the same camera and lens as the frog eggs, but I was just messing around and didn't have a tripod or anything, so the area in focus is very, very narrow... Apple's products are definitely not camera shy...

 

[bousozoku]

Double-robellini seeds.

 

[DreaminDirector]

A deformed lemon I found at my parent's house...

 

[homerjward]

pink flower

i gots me a new background

 

[Blackhawk]

Macro photography

Creature Feature.......

 

[Josh]

A deformed lemon I found at my parent's house...

That's Bart Simpon's grandpa!!!

 

[DreaminDirector]

wow... now that I look at it, it does look like the back of grandpa simpson's head.

 

[Xero]

This was taken by reversing the D-Rebel kit lens, holding it against the body of the camera by hand. (its a cellphone about the size of a SE T616, btw)

 

[JDar]

look how big the compound eyes are

a possible prey critter for Blackhawk's mantis:

 

[tech4all]

A deformed lemon I found at my parent's house...

That reminds me of those underground monsters in the movie Tremors.