Post your best Macro shots

[Jayson]

I have a stacked view of this spider. But I thought this crop was interesting, just a solo pic with thin DOF and all.


Spider (1 of 1) by hdnitehawk01, on Flickr

Love the eyes! I believe that is your common yellow garden spider. Nice how you have captured the zigzag webbing with the shot also. I might boost either the saturation or vibrance to get the yellow to come out a little brighter.

[Jayson]

Here is my first bloom of the year. Yeah I know a little slow, but I have to plant my own flowers. I took this with the 85mm with a 20mm tube at f/1.8. I was going for a razor thing DOF and did alright. Sure wish I had the 85mm f/1.2.

[Joel Eade]

A Lily in our front yard

1D MKIII
180mm macro on a tripod, manual focus
ISO 200
f/7.1
1/400

Took this in ambient light and shot it as a straight small jpeg in camera, processed with DPP. Was trying to expedite the workflow because my wife wanted some small images to email. I usually shoot RAW and use CS5 but this image is pretty sweet with minimal work

[Jayson]

I captured a little baby jumper today. Stacked from 6 images.



And trying to get away.

[Joel Eade]

Nice shots Jayson. The large spider is really spooky looking.

[Jayson]

Thanks Joel. Someday I will get flash on those little guys. I was surprised how well the noise cleaned up. I shot that at ISO 800 with an XTi. I still like the IQ that comes from that old little camera. Makes you think also because you have to set the ISO manually. Auto ISO really took the challenge out of some things.

I really like your lilly shot Joel. Did you use a black piece of paper for the background on that?

[Joel Eade]

I really like your lilly shot Joel. Did you use a black piece of paper for the background on that?

No, it was bright sunshine so I stopped down enough to no clip the bright colors and the BG became very dark as a result.

[Kombi]

couple from today 24-105L with 25mm extension tube

[Kombi]

Rented a Canon 100L Macro for the long weekend . Was pretty excited to try it, took about 300 pictures while walking around the park and my backyard.

But when I reviewed them on the computer, I really didn't get much share worthy.
Most were OOF or at least part of what I thought I captured was.

Any tips or preferred setting people like to set up with there 100L?

couple that I think are share worthy
I would have liked more of the center of the pedal in focus in image below, would stepping this back to f/4 have given me that?

Canon EOS REBEL T2i
ISO: 125
Exposure: 1/2000 sec
Aperture: 2.8
Focal Length: 100mm

Captured pretty much what I wanted here, of course would have been nicer if it was 1-2 days ago when bloom was fresher

Canon EOS REBEL T2i
ISO: 2000
Exposure: 1/2000 sec
Aperture: 2.8
Focal Length: 100mm

[Joel Eade]

[QUOTE=Kombi;71718]
But when I reviewed them on the computer, I really didn't get much share worthy.
Most were OOF or at least part of what I thought I captured was.

Any tips or preferred setting people like to set up with there 100L?[QUOTE]

I am new to macro as well ... one thing I have found is, once you have the shot framed the way you want it, achieve final focus by moving the camera in and out rather than moving the focus ring. I like to move in and snap the shutter when I see the critical part of the image in focus. As already suggested, use as high an f ratio as possible because depth of field is very thin.