Trying out the new lens

[Hexadron]

Finally I have something worthy to shoot with my new Canon EF 100mm f2.8 MACRO USM lens! This is my first go at this, so be gentle, but C&C welcome

 

 

 

 

[tess&ellie]

Beautiful pictures Really well done

[da1001]

Works for me, some of the best I have ever seen.

[iadubber]

Looks good! I'd prefer a little more DOF on some of them though. That lens was one if my favs of the macros I have owned.

[Hexadron]

Thanks guys! I wish I had more corals to take photos of to practice. I did get a yellow filter to take some florescence photo's though. First shot.

 

[Christopher Marks]

Are you shooting handheld or with a tripod? I know it's tempting to shoot wide open, but if you stop the lens down a little bit more to 3.2 or 3.6 you will get a slightly wider depth of field which I think will help get more of the polyps in focus.

[Hexadron]

Are you shooting handheld or with a tripod? I know it's tempting to shoot wide open, but if you stop the lens down a little bit more to 3.2 or 3.6 you will get a slightly wider depth of field which I think will help get more of the polyps in focus.

 

Tripod and remote shutter.

 

Thanks for the advice Christopher! I'll have to play around some more once I get some new specimens to shoot

[Christopher Marks]

That's perfect! When you line up your next shots, try shooting the same photo multiple times but change your aperture a little bit for each shot. You'll be able to compare and see how the depth of field widens to find the sweet spot.

[Withers]

Crank that aperture down to about f/10 or more. Really good shots though, it's much much harder to get clear macro shots of reef specimens. It's easily the most difficult thing I've ever tried to photograph (macro).