Close-Up and Macro Photography
qualify. The only focus rail that I have liked (and own) is the Minolta rail. It is really heavy, works smoothly, and is a pleas ...
Novoflex Mini Castel Rail Novoflex Castel-Q with Swis-Arca Rail and Clamp This is the best I have, and the one I use most of the ...
The Wind is No Friend to Macro Work Michigan is for the most part just flat since the glaciers moved across it like a snow plow ...
flower, shot by shot. Although this approach sometimes works, it seldom works well and is hardly worth the effort. Another thing ...
Light Tents On the next page is an inexpensive Light Tent that I have cut the bottom (cut on one of the flat sides) out of. I th ...
Either from the slit in the front of the tent or by pulling back the Velcro strips along the top of the front. If you can blur t ...
Light Tents in the Field Light Tents fold up flat or can be twisted into a small round package but as you get to the larger size ...
the aperture, or both. Forget about getting a stacked photo that day. However, if you stack photos then wind will seldom let you ...
Light Diffusers Diffusers and reflectors are readily available on Ebay, B&H, Adorama, and other providers of photography acc ...
carrying case. I then went to Wal-Mart and picked out a somewhat sheer fabric that lets a lot more of light through than the ori ...
Home made diffuser. ...
Higher Apertures Typically a lens is most sharp around f/4 or f/5.6. Better lenses can still resolve sharpness (despite the onse ...
deep DOF while in general a lens focused close-up has a more shallow DOF. And we don’t always want everything in focus. In fact, ...
attempts to push any of these approach as far as possible, which brings us to “Focus Stacking.” Focus stacking is a non-analog ( ...
toward infinity the number of the stacked photo images that are effective are few to none. This is generally true of many wide-a ...
Additional Considerations: Investment Macro lenses can be had on the cheap, so to speak, because in macro photography (and absol ...
stack photos that others make. Most of all, rack-focusing is more suited to the studio and not the woods and fields. I need to b ...
least one of the frames will be the shot you would have taken if you only had one shot – the traditional photo with one point of ...
you get this close, you really do need a focusing rail, studio, lights, and all of that. You can get great shots using a rail an ...
few. If they are legion, there is not much you can do but enjoy it in the abstract, flaws and all. Then you really are an impres ...
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