Close Ups

 

I bought a set of closeup lens a while back and have been playing with them from time to time.

Got a set of four, ranging from 1x up to 10x. I saw the water drops on this honeysuckle while walking the dog and decided to see what I could do . 

 

The top photo was shot with my 70-300 Macro. I used the 2X for the middle

photo and then the 4X for the bottom one. This was hand held, and I had a few that were out of focus.

It is best to shoot with a tripod. There is no depth of field with these things and the slightest move will throw your focus off.

 

Close up lenses are like filters, they screw onto the front of your lens. Like filters you buy them to fit the threaded rings on the front of your lens.  You can buy them individually of in sets. The lower number is less magnification, and the higher gives more.

They provide a really inexpensive way to do some close-up photography and are fun to play with.

Foggy Morning In The Valley

We woke up in Fort Valley to quite a bit of fog. I had intended on shooting the Christmas lights downtown

and had not gotten around to it yet.  Decided a bit of fog could make some cool images.

I took along the 15-30mm zoom and my 28mm, not sure what I wanted to do.

The first three are shot with the really wide 15mm. For what I wanted in these images it was just right. I wanted a wide scene and the perspective in the top two with the strong diagonal lines.  Also used the 15 to get the nutcracker large in the frame while still keeping some environment.

The bottom shot is with the 28. The 15 really puts a lot of distance between the foreground and background objects. In the top three images, that was a good thing. In the bottom photo I wanted to keep the nutcracker fairly close to the tree so the 28 worked better.