Post your macro photos here
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Slowly? Coughing................ OK, if you say so! I'm just not sure slowly is the ah right word. Well maybe Fast is the new slow, or maybe my idea of slowly is much much much slower than your version of slowly! Lol I'm just glad I wasn't drinking anything when reading that! I'm too old to enjoy Pepsi coming out of my nose, if I ever did! Lol 
Slowly? Coughing................ OK, if you say so! I'm just not sure slowly is the ah right word. Well maybe Fast is the new slow, or maybe my idea of slowly is much much much slower than your version of slowly! Lol I'm just glad I wasn't drinking anything when reading that! I'm too old to enjoy Pepsi coming out of my nose, if I ever did! Lol
Lol. I knew a thing or two about Photoshop and after my initial dislike of Lightroom -I must say I now start to love it- I could take that knowledge there. If you know PS you know LR but when you don't try, as I did in the beginning, you don't realize. It sure beats messing in View NX2 as I did first.
But above all it had to "click". I did some hobby photography many many moons ago but hadn't picked up a cam in more than a decade. I've been shooting some since the end of July now but only during the last weeks I realized what I wanted to do and how I could do it. Once you're there, it goes fast.
Now it only needs to go better and that's usually a much slower process.
Thanks, have you tried any shorter length macro lenses on the D3300? I wondered how the AF-S 40mm f/2.8G DX Micro or 85mm f/3.5G AF-S VR DX IF-ED Micro would perform.
Before this lens I have been shooting with the 70-300 VR and close up filters. I haven't tried any of the other. Even when it was a reasonable investment, I paid more for the distance the 200 provides. Bugs tend to be skittish and when you're tall as me, being close drives them off or casts humongous shades. Quality-wise I doubt it matters that much if you got a 200 or shorter.
Thank you
After seeing my own shots after a few days of practise, my wife is thinking of getting into macro/closeup, but she would be very tight for budget. I am showing her your excellent shots to show what can be achieved with the D3300. She would tend to be shooting flowers & fauna, rather than bugs as such. Your excellent advice will help me to explain to her the difference between the lens lengths.
If I pay attention, I can take a good macro shot with the 200mm but the last ones I posted are not so great "macro" shots if you look at the original. I take about 200-300 photos each session and delete all but maybe 30 of them after the first viewing. Of those 30 often maybe 2 or 3 are left and they're not always the ones having the best quality. What I look for is potential and that may come at the expense of technical quality. If you use a tripod and flash, I'm sure you can take much better macro pictures than me.
It's mainly LR and PS that enables me to pull the potential out of what was a reasonable mediocre shot.
Here's the original RAW of the last.
If macro is your prime focus, then I'd say no you don't "need" the D810. The D7100 or it's replacement would do an awesome job and you'll still get most of the perks of a pro camera. For macro, DX is made to order, with it's crop sensor.
Oh I see. I don't have the best post porocessing programs, and I have very little skill in post processing.
Most all my photos get just some touch ups like sharpening or saturation and stuff like that.I can't pull a good outcome out of my poorer shots. Very little is changed from what they are out of the camera.
Not because I'm against post processing. I'm just not very skilled at it. Lol
Most all my photos get just some touch ups like sharpening or saturation and stuff like that.I can't pull a good outcome out of my poorer shots. Very little is changed from what they are out of the camera.
Not because I'm against post processing. I'm just not very skilled at it. Lol
If macro is your prime focus, then I'd say no you don't "need" the D810. The D7100 or it's replacement would do an awesome job and you'll still get most of the perks of a pro camera. For macro, DX is made to order, with it's crop sensor.
I'm starting to think the same. The D3300 does a good job for macro and while the D810 has a better sensor and better quality, it's of little importance since my processing tends to destroy a lot of that quality anyways. I'd like the larger buffer and faster shutter speed but is that really worth a couple of thousands?
I could upgrade to a less expensive -more pro- model but there too I'd just be paying for a couple of buttons. At first I got annoyed by the lack of some buttons on this D3300 but now I really got all I need. I can change shutter, aperture and ISO pretty easy and all the rest what is important I can do in post.
Maybe I'm gonna keep the money in my pocket until I really hit some limits with this one.
Oh I see. I don't have the best post porocessing programs, and I have very little skill in post processing.
Most all my photos get just some touch ups like sharpening or saturation and stuff like that.I can't pull a good outcome out of my poorer shots. Very little is changed from what they are out of the camera.
Not because I'm against post processing. I'm just not very skilled at it. Lol
It's mainly practice Bill. Lightroom is pretty cheap and in the end, it's about moving some sliders and changing some numbers. If you don't like something, you go a step back and try again.
What I do isn't terribly complicated but I like it. If Hamilton made a career out of scantily clad teenagers in fuzzy surroundings, I can make a hobby out of cartoonish macro.
Your cartoons are excellent J-see. You know, I've been "using" LR & PS for a week now & haven't even found how to to anything in LR other than delete photos!
From a few days playing with the D810, I can tell you that one thing that you would love with the D810 is the cropping ability.
From a few days playing with the D810, I can tell you that one thing that you would love with the D810 is the cropping ability.
Your cartoons are excellent J-see. You know, I've been "using" LR & PS for a week now & haven't even found how to to anything in LR other than delete photos!
From a few days playing with the D810, I can tell you that one thing that you would love with the D810 is the cropping ability.
I'm not sure what you mean by cropping ability?
From what I read one of the disadvantages of the D810 would be its increase in sensor size coming at the expense of DOF when taking the exact same shot. I'd have to check that out some more but in macro, that's a pretty high price to pay.