Macro

["YellowBelly"]

I had a little play with Macro and was rather surprised how they turned out.
Pictures of flowers what next... ;D

[tallyho]

They're looking well. Not that i know much but i Like the water on the petals in the second shot. Do you use the automatic macro setting or do you set up manually?
Karl

["YellowBelly"]

Thanks Karl, it was on automatic my camera knowlage is very limited....

[Chris Gurney]

The second one looks good, nice detail with the droplets of water.

[vulcan2912]

Hi Mike

Nice to see that you are taking the camera to work.Should be plenty of specimens for you to point the camera at there.I used to do quite a bit of flower photography.If I was going out with the camera and the weather was poor I would nip down to Tesco or Fearons and grab a bunch of flowers and then spend a couple of hours trying out lots of different things.
I prefer the second picture.The first one needs a shallower depth of field to throw the background out of focus a bit more.
I like the second one but I think it would benefit from a tighter crop.It's a nice effect with the water drops(some flower photographers actually travel around with a spray bottle to add their own).
Hope you don't mind-cropped it and adjusted the levels.



Altering the colour can also give some nice effects.





Looking forward to seeing a few more.

Cheers
Gary

["YellowBelly"]

No problem, thanks for the info Gary...

["YellowBelly"]

Another attempt at macro but with a different subject..

[vulcan2912]

Nice idea Mike.Looks like imageshack's jpeg compression has killed alot of detail though.These picture hosting sites can play havoc with your pictures.
Let's see some more.

Cheers
Gary

["YellowBelly"]

Again with imageshack, 1/43rd scale diecast Alfa

["YellowBelly"]

["YellowBelly"]

Not macro but a good pic for me..

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