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MentholMoose
03-25-2007, 02:35 AM
http://www.mentholmoose.net/images/flower.jpg
http://www.mentholmoose.net/images/bee.jpg
I took these two weeks ago, using a Pentax *ist DL and Pentax DFA 100mm macro lens.
Soulburner
03-25-2007, 05:20 AM
Not bad :cool:
This weather is making me want to get out with the new camera.
Ashraf
03-25-2007, 09:13 AM
Not bad :cool:
This weather is making me want to get out with the new camera.
Me too. :banana:
5-Clicks
03-25-2007, 11:52 AM
Nice pics! Aren't those micro shots, though?
MentholMoose
03-25-2007, 12:27 PM
Nice pics! Aren't those micro shots, though?
Thanks!
Usually "macro" is used to refer to taking close-up pictures, but micro works, too.
5-Clicks
03-25-2007, 12:32 PM
Yeah, it's just contradictory:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/macro
skate2snow
03-25-2007, 05:30 PM
I don't know much, but I know that Macro means Close-Up. Probably because you actually enlarge actual objects.
deepsilver
03-26-2007, 09:17 AM
http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/6392/img3932rn1.jpg
Vapor
03-26-2007, 01:41 PM
Micro means small...macro has recently been taken to mean "close-up" but really means to make larger than 1:1 (so a grain of rice in the picture is larger than in real life) based on a 4x6 print (I think...tbh I forget...meh). This can be done from any distance, doesn't have to be upclose....just it's a little tougher from a distance as the lens has to be very good with a large aperture, little to no distortion, and a good zoom capabilities and minimum focal length.
In modern digital Point-and-shoot cameras, macro mode has just taken the software to use autofocus to search close range capabilities of the lens.....which is kind of a backwards 'feature.' W/o the separate mode, it would search the whole range on its own, which is potentially slow, so they made a dedicated macro mode and a regular mode for two faster modes :)
With SLRs, a macro lens is just a lens that can focus and capture at greater than 1:1.
MaxxxRacer
03-27-2007, 05:00 PM
I'll have to repost some of my macro shots...
Magnj
03-29-2007, 03:36 PM
Yea macro is well none of the shots above...here are some that are macro technically
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/107/285974716_81cdc58140.jpg
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/90/267059628_735f246f04.jpg
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/80/267591590_aa4958b344.jpg
Aerou
04-08-2007, 07:43 AM
http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/6392/img3932rn1.jpg
really nice one, although lean towards more natural reproductions,
this one has a pleasant feel, nice, bright and vibrant
may I ask which lens?
ooeric
04-08-2007, 01:44 PM
holy cow. look at the ZOOM on the pics 2 posts up.
b0bd0le
05-03-2007, 01:39 AM
magnj, what lens were those taken with?
MentholMoose
05-06-2007, 08:36 PM
Here are a couple of pics of my laptop keyboard. The first one is 1:1. They are uncropped and resized (see links for unresized).
http://mentholmoose.net/images/IMGP1739_low.jpg
Link to full res. (http://mentholmoose.net/images/IMGP1739_full.jpg)
http://mentholmoose.net/images/IMGP1740_low.jpg
Link to full res. (http://mentholmoose.net/images/IMGP1740_full.jpg)
MentholMoose
05-06-2007, 08:41 PM
Here is a 100% crop of the above 1:1 macro.
http://mentholmoose.net/images/IMGP1739_crop.jpg
Ashraf
05-06-2007, 08:52 PM
Not bad. Good job, MentholMoose! :)
jamiet757
05-07-2007, 05:04 AM
wow, I love that one of the bee, I have been trying to get a good one of a bee for a while, but I haven't had the patience to sit there long enough for one to be in the right spot and stop moving
http://jamiet757.zenfolio.com/img/p604727225-5.jpg
that is one of my best ones, it advanced to the finals in a photo contest, but I couldn't make it to Las Vegas for the showing so it was dropped out.
Magnj
05-12-2007, 09:10 AM
magnj, what lens were those taken with?
This was using the reverse mount method. I had the kit lens@55mm mounted on the body with a 55mm Prim lens on the front of it mounted backwards. this game me an effective 1:1 @ 55mm.
deepsilver
05-26-2007, 11:50 AM
http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/8051/img7168ph7.jpg
Magnj
05-27-2007, 04:57 AM
Here's my latest...
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/190/512820938_221ff50d02.jpg
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/191/512820994_39854a9878.jpg
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/217/512820910_f6487a5cf3.jpg
Here are a couple of pics of my laptop keyboard. The first one is 1:1. They are uncropped and resized (see links for unresized).
http://mentholmoose.net/images/IMGP1740_low.jpg
Link to full res. (http://mentholmoose.net/images/IMGP1740_full.jpg)
That's a nice macro picture. I like the color tone and composition :)
I also like the macro-macro pics of insects and stuff:
http://academics.hamilton.edu/biology/kbart/image/insect.jpg
lowfat
07-12-2007, 10:26 PM
A few of my better macro shots.
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b110/tulcakelume/SD200/flower1.jpg
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b110/tulcakelume/SD200/dothanmacro1.jpg
largon
07-19-2007, 12:55 AM
I also like the macro-macro pics of insects and stuff:
http://academics.hamilton.edu/biology/kbart/image/insect.jpgThis image is from an electron microscope rather than a conventional digital camera.
EM imaging is really not point and shoot; you need liquid nitrogen to deep freeze the target, then to gold plate the now rather dead bug in pure vaporized gold. Then you shoot the bug with a ray of electrons and use a "camera-of-a-sort" to capture the electrons the gold plating of the unlucky deepfrozen bug bounces back. EM images have no colors, untampered pics are grayscale - publicly shown pics are often tinted for more prettier appearance.