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Water Droplets Macro

Posted June 20th, 2008 by Jason

http://flickr.com/photos/jswaby/2594730605/

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3282/2594730605_4544edbd56.jpg

Exposure: 0.006 sec (1/160)
Aperture: f/6.3
Focal Length: 50 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Exposure Bias: 0/10 EV

So this time I took the advice I learned from the last critique, and applied some of them to this picture. I didn't have the option in Camera Raw (photo was taken in RAW) to use the Clarity option, but I did apply more vignette.. I took this with an aperture that was wider than before to isolate the droplets in the centre of the leaf..

Water Droplets on a Leaf

Posted June 19th, 2008 by Jason

I took this shot in the afternoon right after a quick rain. Thought there would be great opportunities for some macro shots of water droplets on leaves.

Exposure: 0.05 sec (1/20)
Aperture: f/11
Focal Length: 50 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Exposure Bias: 0/10 EV

Captured it in RAW (ARW) on my A100 with the 50mm f2.8 Macro, then edited the photo in photoshop CS2 (camera raw for exposure, and then some curves, levels, and unsharp mask). It just didn't come out looking as sharp/contrasty as I was hoping. Looks like there's a gray film over it.

Pentax MAGNIFYING EYECUP O-ME53

Posted June 4th, 2008 by andrewrocks

A+

Huge help, I can manually focus now with my sony 50mm 1.4f.

80~90% of my first shots are in focus, while without it, i dropped to 20~30%. These are numbers may seem drastic, but without it I kinda have to guess what is and what is not in focus, with the dof being so thin I have trouble seeing it. Now, with the magnifier, it eliminates just about almost all the guessing.

I regret not buying this sooner, this would've helped TREMENDOUSLY for closeup shots.

this is on an a100.