If you've followed me for any length of time, you may have noticed that I struggle with Macro. A LOT. But I've been working on it lately, and I'm feeling a little better. Not sure it'll ever be my favorite form, but it has it's moments.
Anyway, over at 365project, they do a "Macro" challenge, and I've been trying to focus on it. To that end, I've entered 2 of the 4 rounds this year. It's a start.
The current round has the theme Morning defined as "Something you see in first thing in a Morning, or something that's Morning to you." Above is what I came up with, I was pretty happy with it. And it was picked as a Finalist, so that's kinda cool.
Notes on Technique:
As much as I love my Fujifilm X-T3, I don't have a good lens for macro with it. I decided recently to dig out my old Nikon D3200,, and the 60mm Macro lens I had for it. And, most importantly, the tripod. That's probably my biggest failure as a photographer... I don't like tripods. I use a mono-pod some, but I just prefer to travel light.
Anyway, I set up the tripod, and a sheet of matboard as a backdrop. And leave the D3200/macro lens with it, and ready to go. Tripod, ISO=100, step down to get some depth of field.... and try to figure the whole composition thing on close up.
Here's some other examples:
Nuts
Down To The Wire
Argus
Samara
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