A friend of mine from another challenge presented this challenge to me. At first it didn’t make sense. So I thought about it and finally got around to doing it. She told me to reverse my lens and take photos that way. It’s the poor man’s way of taking macro photographs. Hahahaha
It was pretty darn cool. Of course what was confusing me was how to set the aperture. Well…there is no aperture. You only set the shutter speed.
Here are a couple of items that I took macros of. The first are the berries from my holly bush out front and the second is red curry powder. Don’t tell hubby I was playing in his spices!
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Have you had your portrait created today?
Betty
16 comments:
I love the shot of those berries! Hard to believe this works, I am going to have to try that!
I guess, I understand about moving the camera back & forth to focus but it only works on macro pics right? By the way I thought the pics looked classy.
Love the berry shot...the colors are intense :) Not sure if I understand the reverse lens thing.
I'm also going to give it a try. Just for fun cause I have a perfectly good macro lens LOL
Oh yes, I learned about this in a photographery class once. Very cool shots!
CC, I love these! How in the heck did you do it... I'm so confused. I want to learn to do the poor man's macro. Can you explain please. I love the colors here. Great images.
Great shots! I have always wanted to try reversing the lens but didn't nderstand how the lens would stay in place...do you hold it or is there some type of adapter?
Betty,
I love the berry shot. I really want a macro lens!
Very cool idea.
Thanks guys. What you do is take off your lens and turn it around as if you're going to screw it back in except this time it's backwards. You'll have to hand hold it. Thus the reason you see so much camera shake. Your canon camera will tell you that your F Stop is f/00 but you can still adjust your shutter speed. It was pretty cool. I could so do this all of the time, but I was terrified that I would get dust on my sensor! lol lol
Oh I really like those!
These are super cool! I love the berry photo with the reds up against the green and blue!
Wow- I've never heard of this- I'll have to try it! Did you use a fixed lens then? Like a 50mm?
Thanks for the explanation... I can't wait to try this.
WOW! These shots are spectacular! Your color and dof rock! Such creative shots. I have never heard of this either. I want to try it out for myself sometime.
What a very cool technique! I love what you achieved with it. I can't wait to try this when I get home.
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