Wee! Macro photography!

[fkshiu]

Just got an awesome Canon 100mm F2.8 macro lens from Boxing Day. Here's my first few tries. Still trying to get the manual focus down - the DOF is razor thin!

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c197/fkshiu/Zoasactinic.jpg
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c197/fkshiu/Twotonefrog.jpg
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c197/fkshiu/TongaLeather.jpg
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c197/fkshiu/Supermanmonti.jpg
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c197/fkshiu/Squamosa.jpg
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c197/fkshiu/Openbrain.jpg
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c197/fkshiu/Meteorshowercyphastrea.jpg
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c197/fkshiu/Jupitercyphastrea.jpg
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c197/fkshiu/Favia.jpg
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c197/fkshiu/Dendroactinic.jpg

[fkshiu]

con't

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c197/fkshiu/Clownanchorhammer.jpg
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c197/fkshiu/Candycane.jpg
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c197/fkshiu/Blastowellsi.jpg
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c197/fkshiu/Blastomerletti.jpg

[Delphinus]

Nice!!! :D

[danny zubot]

I'd say those are pretty nice. I really like the green brain pic.

[fishoholic]

Cool, pic.'s

[Lance]

Niiiiice!

[dsaundry]

Purdy:biggrin:

[BC Mosaic]

Tres Purdy!
Especially the last photo. Is that a Blasto?

[sphelps]

You can increase your DOF in two ways. First (the easiest) is to simply shoot with a higher aperture, however this may require a tripod due to lower shutter speed or a higher iso. The second way is to take multiple pictures at different focus points and then use a technique called focus stacking to overlap all the pictures. Helicon Focus is a program that can do this very easily.

[fkshiu]

Tres Purdy!
Especially the last photo. Is that a Blasto?

Yes, blastomussa merletti.

[fkshiu]

You can increase your DOF in two ways. First (the easiest) is to simply shoot with a higher aperture, however this may require a tripod due to lower shutter speed or a higher iso. The second way is to take multiple pictures at different focus points and then use a technique called focus stacking to overlap all the pictures. Helicon Focus is a program that can do this very easily.

Thanks. These are all tripod pics anyway so I'll play with the aperture and ISO some more.

[sphelps]

If you're already using a tripod just try using a higher aperture, and when I say higher I just mean a higher F stop which actually means decreasing the aperture. Sorry for that confusion.

[hillegom]

nice pics fkshiu