Hexadron Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 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 Link to comment
tess&ellie Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 Beautiful pictures Really well done Link to comment
da1001 Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 Works for me, some of the best I have ever seen. Link to comment
iadubber Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 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. Link to comment
Hexadron Posted January 5, 2015 Author Share Posted January 5, 2015 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. Link to comment
Christopher Marks Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 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. Link to comment
Hexadron Posted January 5, 2015 Author Share Posted January 5, 2015 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 Link to comment
Christopher Marks Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 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. Link to comment
Withers Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 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). Link to comment
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