4 posts tagged “macro”

Broke out the Lumix in macro mode the other day.   Until I get a macro lens for the D80 this will be my main macro camera, and it does a great job. 

I snapped this picture just as an afterthought this weekend with the Canon Powershot set in macro mode.  This is about a 50% crop.

I just bought a pretty cheap Albinar 28mm f/2.8 macro lens for the XD-11 and gave it a test drive today. 

Unfortunately after I finished the roll I realized I had the ISO on the camera set incorrectly.  The ISO of the film was 160 and I had it set to 125.  It wasn't a disaster, but all the photos were slightly overexposed so I corrected them in Photoshop.

The depth of field is pretty shallow as well which led to some cool flower shots that almost look like paintings. 

Take a look.

Yes, I live in Massachusetts and have a neighbor with cactus planted in their front yard.  Surprisingly I think it's actually alive and survived our winter. 

I loved the contrast in this photo.

These blossoms are clearly a bit past their prime, but this was the sharpest of the pictures I took of them.  It was windy today so sometimes I just snapped and hoped the focus was good.

I took all of the flower shots with the lens wide open at f/2.8 and the effect in some is pretty cool; they almost look like paintings.

I spotted a little gold shiny thing on my tomato plants the other day while I was wandering around the backyard taking pictures.  It was so small I really couldn't tell what it was, other than that it was an insect of some sort.  So I switched to Macro and tried to get a few up close and personal pictures of it. 

A few of the pictures came out great.  I could not have had the lens more than a few centimeters off the leaf.  He/she was about half the length of my fingernail.