Quote Originally Posted by Nochowderforyou


Try moving the camera farther away. Avoid going closer than 6 inches from the lens to the thing you're taking a picture of.

My cam. requires that you have to be far away, but use the digital zooms to get a close up. Avoid taking the picture from close up, on the macro setting. Try further away, then zoom in.

When I get too close with the lesn, it comes out blurry anyways.

Some cams require a 100% steady hand too. If you're hand is shaking, it can produce a blurry shot too.
Great post Nochowder and good point on getting too close. I think this is the #1 error most people make. They want to get close up so they move the camera about 2-3 inches away and the pic ends up looking like shit. I'd rather see a clear picture of a not so close up than a blurry picture up close.

The best thing is to take a look at your camera manual to find the minimum focusing distance. I guarantee it's somewhere in there. Then, once you find the distance never get closer than that. Get a tape measure if you need to. But NEVER get closer.

Also, please take the bud out of the fuckin baggie. Unless, of course, you're specifically trying to show what the amount looks like in the baggie. The only thing I hate more than a blurry picture is blurry picture with the bud still in the bag and the poster asking "Is is good?" or, even worse, "What strain is it?". Hell, half the time you can't even tell if it's weed, et alone what strain. LOL.

One other point is that, especially in a macro mode, the amount of the bud that will be in focus(depth of field) is pretty small. Try to keep as much of the bud parallel to the plane of the lens as possible. In other words, if you are focusing on point 7" from the lens, try to keep as much of the bud as possible right at at 7". Anything closer than 6.75" or farther than 7.25" will most likely be out of focus and blurry. Does that make sense??

Anyhow, here's one I took the other night.