Topic: Slowly getting the hang of macro shots..I think.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.miles4/photos/wasp.jpg
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.miles4/photos/wasp1.jpg

I took these this morning, and I'm pretty pleased with them, for me anyway.



[This message has been edited by prawnstar69 (edited 10-05-2003).]

yes these are nice shots

Nice photo's, but keep trying to get closer - I took at least 50 pictures of bees before I got these:
http://www.iol.ie/~aftereffects/Bee2.htm



[This message has been edited by Simon Figg (edited 10-29-2003).]

Off topic: Can we, for the love of God, please stop spelling plurals with apostrophes? I've been noticing this phenomenon more and more everywhere I go and it makes me want to rip my eyebrows off.

Anyhow, super shots.



[This message has been edited by Wes (edited 10-20-2003).]

eyebrows or eyebrow's?

i dont think anyone really minds too much

Wow simon those shots are amazing btw!

I caught a ladybug crawling up my girlfriends arm the other day.

Frank

Dang, i dont think my camera would quite be capable of those shots, think i should look into getting a proper slr or something..

You don't need an SLR for these shots, but you do need lots of pixels! I took mine with a Nikon Coolpix 5700 (5 megapixels).

wow! those are amazing shot's -hehe (the bee and ladybug)

I did try to get closer, but the camera is auto-focus and even with the macro setting on it goes out of focus when getting too close, it's kinda frustrating really.

Been there. My pocket digital doesn't get very close at all. The macro lens on the SLR really makes me understand how poor the pocket camera was at macro shots.

It's still possible to get interesting macro shots with a macro-weak camera, you just have to settle for close-ups with interesting perspective and such. No 'wow, that bug looks HUGE' shots.

off the main topic, but on wes' topic.

^Amusing. Almost as amusing as the mental image of Wes ripping his eyebrows off.


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You say you dont need an SLR to take those shots? i still dont think my digital canon ixus could do it, it just wouldnt focus at that distance.

What actually makes a camera SLR btw? is it just fact that you can change the lenses etc? im thinking of buying something in the next 6 months, i dont really need anything "Super" but something that "can" do everthing would be great

SLR stands for single-lens reflex. It means that when you look through the viewfinder, you're looking through the same lens through which the image is captured.

You can take macro shots with a camera that isn't an SLR as long as the optics of that camera have the capability.

And my forehead would look quite expansive without eyebrows.

OK Wes, I give up - I've edited my post to remove the apostrophe in "bee's", which I found just as annoying as you do. I rant continuously about poor spelling and punctuation in posts and emails, so it's particularly galling to get it wrong myself. I've left the apostrophe in "photo's" because it's a contraction of "photographs" - is this right?

Simon

"Photo's" isn't a contraction. A contraction is the combination of two words, like "is" and "not" becoming "isn't."

The plural of "photo," which is just short for "photograph," would be "photos."

And I appreciate your acquiescing to my pet peeves.

Coming back to the subject of macro photography, I was playing the other day:



Taken with a Kyocera Finecam S4 (4.0 MP)

Nice!

(since your post wes ive realised how bad my english has become we are all doomed!)