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Heres some bugs Fred! :D Good talking to you yesterday
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Kelley (Texas)
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I am amazed at the fine detail in those pictures. How did you get the live bee to stand still while you took it's picture? How close did you actually get to the bee? Royal, these are great pictures!
The third photo, the spider, gives me some ideas. Some of the large spiders that live down here may make a good macro photo. I may try a macro spider, of course it will have to be a outdoor photo...Debbie said no more bugs in the house.
Good talking with you too! I think that I will try a few of the tips that you gave me on taking macro photos. After I learn to take a decent bug picture, I want to learn how to change heads on bodies...do some of that trick photography that you and Wayne have done. Please have a great day! Kelley (Texas)
The third photo, the spider, gives me some ideas. Some of the large spiders that live down here may make a good macro photo. I may try a macro spider, of course it will have to be a outdoor photo...Debbie said no more bugs in the house.
Good talking with you too! I think that I will try a few of the tips that you gave me on taking macro photos. After I learn to take a decent bug picture, I want to learn how to change heads on bodies...do some of that trick photography that you and Wayne have done. Please have a great day! Kelley (Texas)
I called Fred and we talked for a while. That subject came up and I think the problem is that you are in automatic and Macro mode but you are shooting from too close.
Try setting your camera in Macro and Automatic and hold the camera maybe three or four inches from the target. Let the auto focus do the focusing and just click away. Your camera will get all the information and then go into Photoshop or what ever photo program you use and crop it.
One thing you HAVE to do is take the picture as large, pixle wise as your camera will let you. I have a 5 meg camera and I can print them a yard wide or almost. It cost memory but you will be able to get great pictures. If you cut them down to save memory you will lose definition.
Think Big!!
Try setting your camera in Macro and Automatic and hold the camera maybe three or four inches from the target. Let the auto focus do the focusing and just click away. Your camera will get all the information and then go into Photoshop or what ever photo program you use and crop it.
One thing you HAVE to do is take the picture as large, pixle wise as your camera will let you. I have a 5 meg camera and I can print them a yard wide or almost. It cost memory but you will be able to get great pictures. If you cut them down to save memory you will lose definition.
Think Big!!
Kelley (Texas)
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traced to not knowing how to use the camera...lots of buttons and switches with instructions that are confusing to us. I am going to try to back off a short distance and rely a little more on cropping the photo and see what happens. I am concerned that by cropping and then enlarging the photo that the resulting photo may have lots of grain in it...would this be possible? While somewhat frustrated with the results of macro bug photography to date, I am getting excited again.
Say, Butch sent me an e-mail and said to put the bug in an empty milk container with the top cut off, the plastic frosted type container, then rest your camera on the rim of the milk container. This should reduce camera movement at slow shutter speed. The only problem that I see with this is that there would be no natural background plants. Something to think about, right?
I just need to get off in a corner some where by myself with no distractions and try to read the instruction manual again. Hopefully, now that Mike has the same camera as I do, we will be able to compare notes and solve this nightmare.
I am at present gathering up supplies to make a run at this macro bug photography thing again: bug spray, fly swatter, mason jar, gallon of gasoline, large flat stick, masking tape, garden hose and the camera. Please have a great day! Kelley (Texas)
Say, Butch sent me an e-mail and said to put the bug in an empty milk container with the top cut off, the plastic frosted type container, then rest your camera on the rim of the milk container. This should reduce camera movement at slow shutter speed. The only problem that I see with this is that there would be no natural background plants. Something to think about, right?
I just need to get off in a corner some where by myself with no distractions and try to read the instruction manual again. Hopefully, now that Mike has the same camera as I do, we will be able to compare notes and solve this nightmare.
I am at present gathering up supplies to make a run at this macro bug photography thing again: bug spray, fly swatter, mason jar, gallon of gasoline, large flat stick, masking tape, garden hose and the camera. Please have a great day! Kelley (Texas)