Extreme Macro!
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TitusvileSurfer
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"Don't ask me how I took these shots, it's a secret"
I would guess you rotated the camera slightly as the shutter was closing?
I would guess you rotated the camera slightly as the shutter was closing?
Recty
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If you were going for the slightly circular blurry look, you did good.
You mentioned in your post that you werent able to focus well though, so maybe you werent?
Anyway, a little friendly advice, if you go down a lot lower than f11, say more around F4, you'd be able to up your shutter speed dramatically and get a lot cleaner pictures.
You mentioned in your post that you werent able to focus well though, so maybe you werent?
Anyway, a little friendly advice, if you go down a lot lower than f11, say more around F4, you'd be able to up your shutter speed dramatically and get a lot cleaner pictures.
Recty
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I guess yeah, that top one is F4, but all the rest are F8 or higher.
Just friendly advice anyway. I have a similar camera to yours (50D vs your 30D) and have done quite a bit of reef type macro photography. Yes, the shallow depth of field makes it hard, but having one part of the animal in perfect focus and the rest blurred has a much better effect than just the entire thing being blurry, imo
Just friendly advice anyway. I have a similar camera to yours (50D vs your 30D) and have done quite a bit of reef type macro photography. Yes, the shallow depth of field makes it hard, but having one part of the animal in perfect focus and the rest blurred has a much better effect than just the entire thing being blurry, imo
maroun.c
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some photoshop like I exif would show you the exif data in a pic which describes all the parameters of taking a picture.
Nice pictures few comments:
Even at F11 your DOF is still very thin and that's due to how close you are to your subject, Your focal length in addition to aperture as most would think.
This effect can be achieved by rotating the camera a bit as mentioned, some of those filters that snap on the lens for effects ranging from subtle to weird as well as doing it in PP. this is a bit similar to panning your shots where you follow your moving subjects with the camera while exposing, take s bit of experimentation but allows you to get freezed subjects with a "motion blurred" background which is usually linear opposed to circular like in here. The motion blurr fulter on Phosotoshop if I remember correctly gives nice results simnilar to those butif you start with a sharper image that would be much better
Nice pictures few comments:
Even at F11 your DOF is still very thin and that's due to how close you are to your subject, Your focal length in addition to aperture as most would think.
This effect can be achieved by rotating the camera a bit as mentioned, some of those filters that snap on the lens for effects ranging from subtle to weird as well as doing it in PP. this is a bit similar to panning your shots where you follow your moving subjects with the camera while exposing, take s bit of experimentation but allows you to get freezed subjects with a "motion blurred" background which is usually linear opposed to circular like in here. The motion blurr fulter on Phosotoshop if I remember correctly gives nice results simnilar to those butif you start with a sharper image that would be much better
TitusvileSurfer
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The secret's out.
TWallace
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