xsrn wrote:
I know I am new here, but why are there so many shots of bugs? I much prefer flowers and other things. All the bugs creep me out.
Ha, they creep me out too. But they're very interesting up close. Especially since we can't see the details with our naked eye. So with that in mind I love the buggy macros! Now if I only had a lens I could use for my own macro shots. Reversing my 50mm f/ 1.8 hasn't worked for me as of yet.
Hi everyone! Just picked up a Canon 100mm macro tonight. I haven't shot macro but have been shooting sports, landscape, people, and travel photography. I'm not a lurker since its my first time here but I will check out some of the posts to learn more about macro photography.
I hope to post some pics soon when I start shooting and when my schedule would allow. :-)
I am new to the forum and find the work here unbelievably well shot. You guys are truly artists, not just snapshooters if you know what I mean. I hope to learn much from all of you as my almost non-existant macro skills progress.
I recently got into photography within the last year and am loving it. I have learned a great deal about photographing birds and wildlife but have far from perfected my technique.
Now I will be splitting my focus learning flash and macro skills. I am on a budget so I will be making homemade ring flashes, loupes, etc. Once I feel that I am only limited by gear then I will upgrade to something like a true macro lens and TC. For now my skill is my most limiting factor so I will focus on that.
I look forward to getting to know you all and thanks for all the postings everyone here has done. The internet has become such a valuable resource for those who seek out groups like yourselves.
I have been lurking since October 2008 when I purchased a EOS 50D. I am still searching for my niche but I love portrait, wide angle and macro photography. I purchased a Canon 100mm 2.8 Macro Lense and I am amazed at what it can do. For now I'll keep lurking and learning and pick up what I can. This forum rocks.
Hi everyone. I'm another noob/lurker that just found this forum. I am really obsessed with macro, wedding, and portrait photography. only problem is I am dirt poor and thus unable to purchase the gear I want (I saved up for 2 years to buy my little Nikon d60 w/ kit lens and a 55-200mm lens). All of the work here is awesome and so, yes, I feel a little intimidated about posting my work (most of which stinks anyway ). Anyway thanks to all who share your work. It's very inspiring and gives me LOTS of ideas.
I have been a lurker for some time on the forum and have just found the macro section. I have been shooting flower macros for a while and have just found Helicon focus which I will post my second result using this software
I'm sorta a lurker and sorta a participant. I have posted comments, but no images yet. Yes, I love macro - just not sure if my personal challenges will ever let me be very good at it. I probably couldn't handle a huge lens, and I have a bit of a tremor, so IS is important, as is AF. Not the best combination of issues for serious macro stuff that could 'compete' on this site. But I love what I am learning, and I am still working on my skills. As with a few others who posted here, the advent of more affordable dSLRs opened up a new world for me. Although I'd had some experience with a manual SLR years ago, I lost my enthusiasm for photography for a while after everything became automatic & cameras did all the work for you. At least the ones I could afford were like that. It's been wonderful to get back into the creative mode, but the learning curve is huge.
Many thanks to all the great photographers on this site. I am in awe of what you do, and I have learned more from each of you than I can ever repay.
I've been lurking for a little while. I'm fairly new to the DSLR world and like the previous poster, am having to learn a lot. I did some film photography/dark room work, a long time ago, but have forgotten most of what I knew. (or maybe I didn't have much to forget ;-) I recently bought a Sigma 150mm macro lens and find it very challenging at a 1:1 ratio. Like so many others, macro photography has opened up a whole new world. Often I find I'm taking a picture of one thing, only to spy something I never saw creeping around. Very eye opening experience!
Newbie here and excited about macro, as well as other areas. Was somewhat of a hobbyist about 10 years ago when I had the opportunity to have a pulitzer price winning photographer on the staff of one of our publications. He got me into shooting. Left the hobby when others interests took over and continued to shoot only once in a while. Just last month went to a digital SLR and decided to get back into it.
Bought a Sigma 150 2.8 macro and have started playing around. Just can't get the depth of field that many of the posted shots show. Having a very tough time with hand holding the camera/lens and getting crisp images. Try to use a tripod and just bought a new trigger grip head for easier movement of the cam/lens.
Interested in know more about how to improve DOF with moving subjects (ie. where I cannot leave the shutter open a longer time). Also, what are the types of flashes I should get? I have a 540 ez, but do I need to buy a ring flash? Also, not sure I am 100% clear on the reversing of fixed lens direct to camera body and also do extension tubes get used with macro lenses? What exactly do the ex-tubes do? What about using a TC with my 150mm?
Finally, I am looking at the 65mm macro only lens, but am I just spending a lot of money to duplicate what the ET will do?
Should I use a special tripod? I find that when shooting with a monopod in macro and run into the same problem as hand holding.
Lots of Qs I know, but am very impressed with these shots and the fact that I don't need to travel all over the world to get such fantastic images.
I am a lurker i havent really posted at all but i have been looking on this forum for about a year now. I first got into photography about 4 years about in my junior year of high-school and i am now going to school in pittsburgh for photography although my true passion is nature i cant really do it as a portfolio for school because of the time constraints but i still do it as often as i can and i love photographing insects, i began with a 100-400 canon lens but when realizing i couldnt get very close to anything i got a 60mm macro and when i moved to nikon i got a 120mm macro and i absolutely love it! its great to go outside and photography bit its also enjoyable to bring specimens inside(insects and plants) and bringing them into a studio setting and using a macro. I really should start posting
Been lurking for quite a few months now. Bought a digital SLR to get me out of the house and moving a bit. Find anything fun to shoot but have a passion for macro/close up. By no means am I any good at it and probably never will be as great as the people on here but you know...it really doesn't matter... I am having a blast anyways.
Oh yes...I like breaking the rules. At the over 50 age group Photographic rules are the only rules I can break
Hi, Im Roberto from Chile. I log in on FM first to buy some gear... then I lern to use FM to know more of the equipment... and lurk here and there.
I love Photography, and I really like sports shooting (mountainbike)...and I always thought that Macro world is facinating, but I never take the time to try it... and I don't have the equipment to do it... but today I was in my work (Physical THerapy) with my 30D taking some pics of a little BBQ that we do to celebrate the "4th of July" of Chile... 18th of September... and a little buddy start to bugging me... I chase him and I flip my 50mm 1.8, just grab it to the camera fliped and I was surprissed... my new buddy was so poser...
I've been lurking in these forums for years. I never was able to go for it and buy a macro lens, but I just did. Hopefully I really enjoy it and will have plenty of images for you all to see.
I am a hobbyist from California who loves landscape and macro shots. I use Canon 100mm macro lens and I am interested in getting the MPE65mm, but I need to research more about it. This is the first time I checked the macro shots here and they are beautiful. Attached is a link of my macro shots. http://crysjan.smugmug.com/Photography/Flowers-and-Plants/Flowers/6223590_aBF8r
I've been lurking off and on. I usually post in Canon and Alternative gear here on FM.
Unfortunately, I don't shoot macro, in the truest sense. I shoot macro in the general sense. My best rig allows me something in the neighbourhood of 1:1.24, so I am very close to 1:1... but being that close is like saying a mile is equal to a kilometre.
I haven't shot macro stuff in a while, but I'm getting back into it. I built myself a small lightbox yesterday, which has worked surprisingly well. All in all, it cost me about $1 to make.
I'm brand new to photography whether it's macro or not. I got a Canon XSi a couple of months ago and I'm absolutely fascinated. Right now I'm only taking pics or my kids and sceneries but hoping to take pics of insects and flowers and I guess that's when I'll need a macro.
Hopefully I'll find time sooner than later!
Thanks for the encouragement!
Inspired by all of the great macro images here, I ordered some coupling rings the other night. I did a lot of macro in the film days, and have done some when time allows with the digital. It's time to get myself back in gear. Thanks for the jumpstart.
It's been some years since I've posted here untill very recently. (this week)
I can blame work for my absence. Here in west australia, we are the epicentre of supplying china with raw materials and the work load is huge. Far more work available than there is workers.
So over the years I've been working my behind off. Good part is we paid the mortgage off and have excess money invested in term deposits & bullion yet no time to do anything with it all.
Recently I bought a brand new 40D + 17-85 f4.0 IS usm kit. The last of the run out model stock. I plan to ebay the 17-85mm (It's so called macro ability sucks) and buy a macro lens. Thinking about the ef-s 60mm which can replace my 50mm f1.8 nifty and should combine with a 1.4x TC I use with my 70-200 f4L if I ever need more macro millimetres. 84mm F4 macro two for one deal.
Good thing about australia. There are plenty of bugs and flowers everywhere to point a macro lens at!
Now if I only had a lens I could use for my own macro shots. Reversing my 50mm f/ 1.8 hasn't worked for me as of yet. 
). Anyway thanks to all who share your work. It's very inspiring and gives me LOTS of ideas. 
