Post Your Best Macro

[FleurDuMal]

Thanks for your kind words I've learned just about everything about this discipline of shooting over at the Fredmiranda.com macro forum. The Mod, Tom Hicks is a master along with several of the members, I'm but a humble student

The 60mm you use, does it have IS or did you use a tripod (or just have a very steady hand)?

Also, what's it like in low light?

 

[danm]

The 60mm you use, does it have IS or did you use a tripod (or just have a very steady hand)?

Also, what's it like in low light?

This shot was handheld, the flash assembly allows me to use 1/250 shutter so handholding a 60 is a piece of cake

 

[jared_kipe]

This shot was handheld, the flash assembly allows me to use 1/250 shutter so handholding a 60 is a piece of cake

I pretty much always hand hold too with my flash. I have the 150mm sigma, that lens rocks, I have a review up on my website.

 

[Abstract]

Handholding a 60mm I can sort of understand, but a 150 mm.......wow, brave man. Sounds a bit risky. Do you (jared) also use an external flash (with the bracket), or just the built-in pop-up flash?

 

[jared_kipe]

Handholding a 60mm I can sort of understand, but a 150 mm.......wow, brave man. Sounds a bit risky. Do you (jared) also use an external flash (with the bracket), or just the built-in pop-up flash?

Sigma flash, but I don't have a bracket. I want one, maybe I'll build one some day.

 

[danm]

I pretty much always hand hold too with my flash. I have the 150mm sigma, that lens rocks, I have a review up on my website.

Hey nice review and site. Your zoo gallery is eerily similar to the 'Animals' gallery on my site taken at Woodland Park Zoo http://danmphoto.com/

 

[danm]

Sigma flash, but I don't have a bracket. I want one, maybe I'll build one some day.

The Bogen one I have was about $50.00, but you're right, it would be easy to make one.

 

[jared_kipe]

The Bogen one I have was about $50.00, but you're right, it would be easy to make one.

Really? That rocks, but then I'd need a stupid off camera shoe. Though I guess I could just trigger it with the built in flash.

Hey nice review and site. Your zoo gallery is eerily similar to the 'Animals' gallery on my site taken at Woodland Park Zoo http://danmphoto.com/

Yeah that rocks, you have some animals and snakes that I'm pretty sure were not there when I went last year around this time. If I go again I'll take a lens longer than 100mm and try to take better through the glass and low light shots. As I got my Sigma flash about 6 months ago.

 

[danm]

Really? That rocks, but then I'd need a stupid off camera shoe. Though I guess I could just trigger it with the built in flash.

Yeah that rocks, you have some animals and snakes that I'm pretty sure were not there when I went last year around this time. If I go again I'll take a lens longer than 100mm and try to take better through the glass and low light shots. As I got my Sigma flash about 6 months ago.

I think for most zoo's, a 70-200 is the minimum, I used my 70-200 f/4 L for all those shots (excluding the polar bear - Portland Zoo with old P&S cam) but if I go again this year I'll bring my newly acquired 300 f/4 IS too

 

[jared_kipe]

I think for most zoo's, a 70-200 is the minimum, I used my 70-200 f/4 L for all those shots (excluding the polar bear - Portland Zoo with old P&S cam) but if I go again this year I'll bring my newly acquired 300 f/4 IS too

I don't have anything that nice :'(

 

[jelloshotsrule]

ok, here's one from a couple years ago. i loved that ring.... and a test shot i took recently when i got my new 50 mm lens.

 

[bertiespeirs]

a few photos from my gap year trip to Malaysia. Not sure if they qualify as macro, but close at the least
The first photo is a roughly 1 inch long praying mantis, that decided to crawl up my arm. I wish I could share the full sized picture with you - the detail in it is incredible.

The second, a very noisey photo, is a friends foot. Something clearly has bitten him, but to this day no-one knows what.

Third is from my a fly on a book on my desk.

I am a complete amateur to photography - all of these photos were taken with an Canon Ixus 50.

 

[Abstract]

I don't think that 3rd photo is of a fly.

And nice work. I don't know how you got such a great shot of that "fly" because if it really is a fly, you probably got a 1:1 shot of it, possibly better. (?) (Or you cropped, and so I understand)

 

[jelloshotsrule]

forgot about this one that i like from a trip to new zealand a couple years back

 

[pdpfilms]

forgot about this one that i like from a trip to new zealand a couple years back

That is BEAUTIFUL. Wow.

 

[ldrhawke]

Nikon D70

Nikon D70 105mm DG Macro lense Salt water fish tank coral

 

[fireball jones]

I don't have any good macro lenses, but I thought this shot came out well.

 

[jelloshotsrule]

That is BEAUTIFUL. Wow.

thanks, glad you like it.

 

[danm]

thanks, glad you like it.

Yeah, the soft detail and shallow DOF really works for that shot.

 

[FleurDuMal]

forgot about this one that i like from a trip to new zealand a couple years back

Where there any effects applied to that photo?

 

[snap58]

I don't have any good macro lenses, but I thought this shot came out well.

Came out real well, sharp, good detail. Remember any of the specifics on it?

 

[fireball jones]

Came out real well, sharp, good detail. Remember any of the specifics on it?

It's from my 70-300G, @ 300. Probably f5.6 and at the closest focal depth, which is not very close at all on that lense

 

[dollystereo]

Hummingbird

This is a Juan Fernandez Endemic Humming Bird (CHILE)

 

[efoto]

This is a Juan Fernandez Endemic Humming Bird (CHILE)

Neat image, hummingbirds are quite hard to capture, at least the ones I see. They are very skittish, nicely caught here though.

 

[jelloshotsrule]

Where there any effects applied to that photo?

nope, taken as is from the camera to iphoto to here.

i blame the high quality on the niceness of the NZ wildlife.