Ok! I tried to take some reversed macro pictures earlier and out of the almost 30 pictures I took only few of them have visible details and those are like extremely close too . I don't really get it I have a 17-85mm lens and I was using the reversed 17mm when I took those pics and I had to hold my camera close to the object which is an old silver coin to get any kind of sharp details...

You can almost see germs and crap in those pictures lol.

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#2 I didn't know the surface of my new desk is that uneven because it looks all nice and almost polished and shiny with my eyes lol.


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This post was edited by Futurama on Feb 23 2009 01:19am

most of the pictures I look like this:
probably because I didn't hold the lens/camera close enough.

I think its amazing what cameras can do lol, these pictures are a good example.

Well it was accidental and I didn't mean to take pictures like those lol. I think my lens just enlarged the object too much.

lol - now you have to try what Tomes said to do: (notice how you have such a little focus area? Try something like F11 lol)



This post was edited by chantal7 on Feb 23 2009 11:00am

craaaaaaaaaaaaap

#2 would look pretty good if the DoF was a bit bigger.

Yep.... that's what I meant in my previous post.

Yeah I am going to try that now. Actually I used the widest aperture on purpose. I did as Tomes told you and chose the widest aperture because I thought I would get some nice background blur but I didn't know my lens would focus on just a tiny part of the coin when it's reversed .

Ummm... well uh, if you did what Tomes said, then how come you get barely even anything showing? Just a tiny part of it revealed.

If you remove the lens normally lens will be wide open and naturally focused area will be really(too) small.

This post was edited by chantal7 on Feb 23 2009 04:36pm