Macro Photography can produce wild and amazing imagery. If you learn how to take great pictures from up close, you can have a lot of fun with it. Woven Shadows 7 contains several ideas to help you improve your techniques in this area.
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Thanks for the new episode, Jerry. Very useful.
I do have a question though. Can use a normal telephoto lens to shoot macro, by selecting the MACRO mode in our camera (I have a Canon 350D, and a Sigma 55-200mm lens)?.
Thanks!
Comment by Nicolas Minuchin — June 28, 2006 @ 4:19 pm
Nicolas, I’m glad you found the new episode useful. I am not familar with the Sigma 55-200mm lens, but unless the lense itself has a macro-mode (which should be clearly shown on the lens) the camera can not do macro even if the camera shows a mode for it. Depending on the filter size of the lens you might be able to purchase some diopter lenses (close-up filters/lenses) to attach to the lens in order to do macro. However, the quality will be somewhat compromised, but unless enlargements are going to be really large it might just do fine. Hope this helps!
~jerry
Comment by ~jerry — June 28, 2006 @ 8:16 pm
great, thanks for the advice.
As for themes suggested for next episodes, I don’t know if this is too complicated for an episode, but it would be good to have an episode on the zone system for digital cameras.
Thanks again, it’s a great podcast
Comment by Nicolas Minuchin — June 29, 2006 @ 11:18 am
This is really a great tuturial for the newbies like me.
In fact, this tutorial has inspired me to try out my own skills (nonexisting… yet
). Anyway, for a good start I need a camera - and here comes the question: how to choose an inexpensive digital one, for general use, that allows the user to set everything by hand? Or maybe I try to apply a wrong criteria here? Maybe this will also make a good subject for one of the next video episodes…
I have also a small suggestion - the episodes here contain photos. Of course the video compression decreases the quality of these. Could you be so kind to put up all those on your website in their high-resolution version?
Comment by ms — July 30, 2006 @ 4:32 pm
This episode was great, especially when the old lady passed behind you. Send my greetings to her and we’re waiting for the next one.
Comment by Carlos Madrigal — July 30, 2006 @ 5:08 pm
I have the same question as “ms.” I am researching to buy an Digital SLR but I’ms till confused about which one to buy. I was going to buy the D50…but then I thought…it’s been out for a while now and perhaps I should buy a newer one or wait for them to come out with a new one.
I’m very much a beginner and am slowly learning to take pictures on my own simply because I just enjoy it. Thank you so much for putting these podcasts together. They really are terrific!
Comment by Noella — August 7, 2006 @ 5:25 pm
I just discovered your podcast! Bravo! I’ve now subscribed through iTunes. I don’t know much about photography, but I do love it. I included a link to a webpage with photos I took while in high School. I’d also like to send you a photo or two from a friend’s wedding that I took for you to critique, but I’m not sure where to send it. Maybe I missed an email addy somewhere… (probably right in front of my face)
Comment by Elissa — August 11, 2006 @ 1:02 pm
I just discovered your show in itunes. You and your son are doing a great job! I really appreciated the short lighting tutorial and the inexpensive lighting setup episode. I’m just getting back into photography and I plan to put your tips to good use in setting up my own home studio to do portraits. Keep those episodes coming! Just one question, in that short lighting episode, are you using that translucent panel in front of the light that creates the short lighting effect as some sort of diffuser?
Comment by Jamar — August 21, 2006 @ 1:00 am
Thank you for the high quality podcast! … and please feature Grandma a little more.
Comment by Daniel — August 22, 2006 @ 12:00 am
Wow, what a great podcast!
You are not only teaching me photography but the excellent quality has gotten my husband interested in podcasts.
Thank you.
I have been shooting with a Nikon 4300 but have recently upgraded to a Nikon D70. Thank you for giving us the benefit of your knowlege. It’s a very nice thing to do.
August95
Comment by august95 — October 1, 2006 @ 7:03 am
I have a question regarding specific thing - silver jewelry photography. Because of the contrast issues, it is very difficult to shoot it so that it looked like on http://www.hsn.com website - sharp, and clearly outlined, as if liquid against the white background. Do you know any tricks on that? I shoot with digital Canon SLR EOS 20D but it does not look even close, although I use 3600 degrees lights and alternate macro and telephoto lens. Please advse if possible. Are there websites/books on this specific subject?
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Thank you for putting up the iTunes subscription button. I’m just getting more into photography techniques so your video podcasts are invaluable training.
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