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I love that you're shooting something mechanical. But a couple of things here. One is that the images are far to large, pixel wise for display here. It's doesn't help to have to scroll around so much. Usually 1200-1500 pixels is about right. Second is that you might find focus stacking to a very effective technique for this type of subject. Not saying that selective focus doesn't work, but for macro you can actually focus stack for great depth and still have a great looking out of focus area as well. And lastly, depending on exactly how close you are, f/11 might be taking away from critical detail, which, of course, brings us back to focus stacking once more. But it really depends on what you want to do with the images and how big you might print, if you're going to print at all.
Panorascal wrote:
So I'm not much of a macro guy. Did a little bit of large format table top & copy stuff 25+ years ago.
Been eyeing this Irix 150mm f2.8 macro for a while, really just appreciating it as a nicely designed tool.
Found one used/mint for a great price and had just sold my old 60 micro so I bought it to give it a try.
As a portrait photographer who shoots wide open all the time, yes the dust is distressing and I cleaned my sensor right after the flower pics. And, wow, that silver doesn't look quite as nice at ~1:2!
These are full D750 files shot at f11. Since I'm unused to shooting macro, should I be happy with the performance?
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