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Macro in the Garden

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Macro in the Garden

Postby Alpha_7 on Mon Aug 15, 2005 12:38 am

Hi tried a few shots of spiders and flys, ants...etc in the garden.

I'm really in need for some tips for taking these sorts of shots, any tips and hints are most welcome. (Any good methods of keeping the subject where you want them ? (other then using dead bugs) ).

I'm sure I can be using the camera and lens better then I am, here is one I like and a cropped version of the same shot.

Thanks for your feedback. :)


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Postby spartikus on Mon Aug 15, 2005 2:03 am

I like the first one - the subject is well centered. However, the spider in the closeup shot is slightly out of focus - what lens were you using? Make sure you're aware of the minimum focus distance of the lens you're using to capture these scary buggers!
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Postby Alpha_7 on Mon Aug 15, 2005 9:38 am

I'll take a photo of the lens I was using (I don't really have a lot of information on it). Its a 58mm-85mm, 0.45x lens that for that shot was fitted to the front of the standard lens kits (17-70? from memory).

To be honest I don't know if its that great, it got thrown in as a bonus when I bought the camera so I'm a little skeptical about it.
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