Any Pro photograghers here???

[IseektheTruth]

Im not a pro yet... But i love taking pics. Buds are one of the hardest things for me to take a good pic of! Plants are difficult to. always leave one area out of focus!! Anybody with any tricks or tips would be great.. i use a Canon EOS 30d

IseektheTruth Reviewed by IseektheTruth on 09-06-2006. Any Pro photograghers here??? Im not a pro yet... But i love taking pics. Buds are one of the hardest things for me to take a good pic of! Plants are difficult to. always leave one area out of focus!! Anybody with any tricks or tips would be great.. i use a Canon EOS 30d Rating: 5

[MaryjaneAndHashley]

im no pro but just use macro shot (the flower button) and gets the job done i have a canon and it works very well

[azure]

theres always going to be an area out of focus unless you use a very small aperture eg. f22. it depends what lens youve got on your 30d as well, unless its a macro lens it wont get very close in most cases. to get most of the picture in focus set a small aperture and set the camera on a tripod [unless there is alot of light and the shutter is 1/250 or above.
MaryjaneAndHashley that only applies to digital compacts and bridge cameras mate IseektheTruths isnt one those

[psychocat]

Nice camera , invest in a macro lens and a tripod.

[MaryjaneAndHashley]

theres always going to be an area out of focus unless you use a very small aperture eg. f22. it depends what lens youve got on your 30d as well, unless its a macro lens it wont get very close in most cases. to get most of the picture in focus set a small aperture and set the camera on a tripod [unless there is alot of light and the shutter is 1/250 or above.
MaryjaneAndHashley that only applies to digital compacts and bridge cameras mate IseektheTruths isnt one those

lol i didnt know...
see how im a n00b??

[azure]

lol i didnt know...
see how im a n00b??

heh

[IseektheTruth]

I have a macro lens ef28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM, I cant get good trichomes even on the stickiest buds... I'm just wondering the numbers cause there is so many lenses with very similar numbers.

[jamstigator]

Obviously the 28mm-135mm is the focal length range of the lens. A 50mm is the base, anything lower than that (shorter) is 'wide angle' and anything higher than that (longer) is 'telephoto'. Macro lenses are those which let you get very close to an object and still focus normally. The 3.5-5.6 is the aperture range of the lens, with the lower number being the lens wide open (allowing the most light in) and the focal length set low (as wide angle as it goes) and the higher number being the lens wide open at its maximum telephoto range (as telephoto as it goes).

What they call 'fast lenses' are those that can allow the most light in. For example, a 50mm f1.2 lens is much faster than the lens you have there which, at best, opens up to f3.5, and probably isn't even that good (fast, adept at getting light down the lens) at 50mm. On the other hand, your lens is more flexible because you have a range of focal lengths. Very fast lenses cost extraordinary amounts of money, thousands of dollars for one lens in some cases.

No, I'm not a pro photographer, just someone who's enjoyed it as a hobby for 25 years or so.

[SpiritLevel]

Some advice here from Sig
Are There Any Photographers Here???

[SpiritLevel]

I'm soon to experiment with bud photography. I bought a canon powershot A510 last july (05) but I only read the manual in the past few days. To take crystal clear close-ups I fink all settings must go to manual. I took that flower pic yesterday or the day before and was suprised at the difference manually configuring your settings makes in comparrison to Auto functions. I tried some night-time sky photography lastnight while toking a J after midnight (so no flash was used). I took Sigs advice from another thread and set my shutter speed to 15 second and got the other pic. I've now started photographing the same random objects lots of times to see how changing a setting affects the outcome, a bit like growing pukka bud really.