Busy bees
A selection of images taken in the Physic Garden in Cowbridge using my 90mm F2.8 Macro lens (hand held) with varying settings that you can see by clicking on an image in the carousel.
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Focus stacking
Volunteering to do a short spot on focus stacking at a u3a afternoon Photography session yesterday, I showed the following sequence of pictures of some orchids using a tripod and a macro lens … [Please note I didn’t edit the images prior to applying the software which I should have done. I could have removed …
Enjoying the sun at Harlow Carr
Here are a selection of the shots I took during our visit. My favourites? The close-ups of the fritillary and the buds, and the garden shed where I exposed for the shadows knowing I could get the highlights (outside the door of the shed) back in post-processing, which I did. These little things I’m beginning …
Daffodils – the macro shots
Jenny bought some lovely daffodils and asked me to photograph them. It was an excellent excuse to get my macro lens out, and tripod, and spend 30mins taking a few shots of these spectacular flowers. The complete set are on Flickr …
More macro magic
Having a cup of tea at Stackpole Walled Gardens this grasshopper decided he wanted to come and join us. Thank you. Scrabble for macro lens, light perfect, no excuses just frame get the right depth of field and shoot! This little fellow was an excellent subject he just didn’t want to move. Even obliging us by …
Macro mahem!
I’m trying, no forcing myself, to get to grips with this thing called macro photography. It’s not easy. Certainly not point and shoot! What do you focus on? How much depth of field do you want? What do you actually focus on, Should you use manual or auto focus? What’s the bokeh (I’m not kidding …
Blooming macro marvelous
I had a 50mm macro lens for my Sony A700 camera, and even though I purchased the LA-EA4 adaptor so that I could use my A-mount lenses on the A7R FE-mount, I had always put a high-quality prime macro lens at the top of my wish list. When Jenny made a contribution towards it for my Christmas …
A first with the new Macro Lens
I wanted to share this, my first image taken with the Sony 90mm F2.8 Macro G OSS Lens for the Sony A7r Full Frame Camera. I’m very excited about the range of possibilities this lens will offer me for both close-up work like this and also for portrait work which I’ve no experience of doing. …