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Macro practice

RvAntwerpen / Judobreaker — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 20:22:08 +0000

Over the past few weeks I have of course been practicing a lot with my new macro lens.
I’m starting to get the hang of it though it still is rather hard to get the focus right when you’re working on full magnification.

Roughly two weeks ago also got myself a new macro flash setup to complete my macro setup, the Nikon close-up speedlight commander kit R1C1.
This kit is great for macro photography as it enables you to attach and control multiple flash lights divided into up to 3 groups at the same time. These groups can be set to flash at a different intensity so you can really control the lighting.

Today I did a macro run in which I got some nice results which I thought would be nice to show you.

– Macro flower – Macro flower	– Macro flower – Macro flower	– Macro flower – Macro flower
– Macro flower – Macro flower	– Macro flower – Macro flower	– Fly looking for food – Fly looking for food
– Macro flower – Macro flower	– Macro flower – Macro flower	– Small moth – Small moth
– Little frog – Little frog	– Little frog – Little frog	– Little frog – Little frog
– Little frog – Little frog

New macro lens

RvAntwerpen / Judobreaker — Tue, 24 May 2011 17:50:11 +0000

Today I added a new lens to my photography gear.
I’ve been wanting to get into the macro part of photography for a long time now and with my new camera I was finally able to.
So, I’ve been researching some options and finally decided to buy an AF-S VR Micro-Nikkor 105mm f/2.8G IF-ED.

I chose this lens because of it’s focal length which is somewhat longer than the cheaper 60mm versions which gives me some more space between me and my subject (insects like me better when viewed from a distance…).
Also I really like the fact that it does not extend when focussing the lens, which most other lenses do. A lens gaining a few inches in length is quite a shock for most insects and might scare them away too quickly.

Anyway, once home I immediately put the lens on my camera, threw on a flash and went outside to do some test shots.
I spotted some fun insects on which I spent several hours shooting, time flies when your having fun!
Here are the best photo’s I got. The first one was rather a lucky shot, basically the only good one I got from 20 minutes of trying to capture a flying hoverfly.
The others are the two sharpest shots I got, I included a 100% crop of one of them.

– Hoverfly in flight – Hoverfly in flight	– Hoverfly – Hoverfly	– Hoverfly 100% crop – Hoverfly 100% crop
– Fly – Fly

Practice in the Ridderkerkse Gorzen

RvAntwerpen / Judobreaker — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 18:55:42 +0000

Yesterday evening I went out with a friend to practice some nature photography in the evening.
It was really fun to do, we chose to go to a nice spot close to where I live.
The spot did turn out to be very nice, though it was a bit more jungle-like then we expected as it turned out to be less cared for as we thought.
Nevertheless we went hiking through our very own dutch jungle using our tripods as a machete and I have to say it was very much worth it.

The evening light was very tricky to work with, we both had quite some photos which turned out to be slightly blurred when we viewed them on our computers.
Luckily enough there are also enough photos which I really like, and I will share a few of those with you.

– Freight ship – Freight ship	– Freight ship – Freight ship	– Bumblebee – Bumblebee
– Bumblebee – Bumblebee	– Romantic bugs – Romantic bugs	– Ridderkerkse Gorzen – Ridderkerkse Gorzen
– Ridderkerkse Gorzen – Ridderkerkse Gorzen	– Ridderkerkse Gorzen – Ridderkerkse Gorzen	– Ridderkerkse Gorzen – Bridge – Ridderkerkse Gorzen – Bridge
– Fly surrounded by bugs – Fly surrounded by bugs	– Ridderkerkse Gorzen – Ridderkerkse Gorzen	– Evening sky – Evening sky
– Evening sky reflected in the water – Evening sky reflected in the water

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