![]() ![]() Remember to position yourself in order not to block that precious light key to sharp images. Next, try pay particular attention to your positioning, posture and breathing when shooting, it can make or break sharp macro photos. If you have a flash try experiment with it of course but if you don’t, don’t worry as none of these photos were shot using a flash.Īdopt the right posture for stability and slow your breathing Of course the reason we need plenty of light is we are getting very close and need a fast shutter to avoid motion blur or having to crank up the ISO. This is general advice for outdoor shoots such as outdoor portraits, clouds can really help tame that bright / harsh midday sun. What I often find, with any type of outdoor photography, is that in fact a few clouds can work in your favour to help diffuse the light to achieve softer shadows. Alternatively you can use your body to shield the wind but this is not what I’d call ideal conditions. I’m going to show you how you can get high quality handheld macro shots but I’m not a miracle worker… so we need lots of natural light and near to no wind. To begin with and to increase your chances of success, aim for a bright day with as little wind as possible. Increase your chances of success with lots of natural light and no wind ![]() My hope is to make macro photography fun and accessible, not necessarily high tech, complicated or expensive but through a few easy tips anyone can follow. This article is intended for people curious about macro photography but who may not necessarily use a tripod, focus stacking, extension tubes, lens reversing ring, ring flash etc… Of course you may not achieve such detail but it shouldn’t stop you having fun with what you have available. If you are a Sony Alpha mirrorless user and enjoy one or both genres, this lens is for you.ĭon’t let the camera gear talk turn you off, these macro photography tips are really meant for anyone equipped with any camera including a simple phone. The Sony FE 90mm f2.8 for Sony A7 series / Alpha mirrorless cameras is not only ideal for macro photography but it is a stunning portrait lens too. The internet is not ready for large photo files of over 20mb! For reference I had to resize and reduce these to under 500kb so your device could load fast enough… low res, yet still looks pretty sweet! Imagine the actual full size image! It’s therefore a real shame that to reach acceptable page loading times I cannot display these macro photos in full resolution on this blog. It is dubbed as one of the sharpest lenses with outstanding optical performance by DXOMARK. ![]() Here I use the Sony FE 90mm f2.8 Macro G OSS which is included in my separate article: What lens for the Sony A7 Series YMMV, of course, but that's what I found works for me to make shooting macro a joy instead of an exercise in frustration.In this new article I will show you how I capture simple handheld macro photography with a strong impact with no other fancy set-up than my mirrorless camera which is maybe a little fancy but not Leica fancy. I found shooting macro to be very frustrating until I added those three tools to my kit. If you're really interested in beautiful macro photography, you'll save yourself a lot of frustration by investing in a good tripod, shutter release and focus rail. You'll probably find that focusing hand-held with extension tubes is not very easy, either, since the slightest vibration will set your image to dancing all over the viewfinder, especially when you're using that big Tamron. For satisfying macro work you really need a tripod that's rock-steady and a remote (or delayed) shutter button. That means very slow shutter speeds, on the order of 3/4 second or longer and IBIS isn't really capable of handling that too well. In order to get any reasonable DOF with extension tubes and macro lenses you'll need to stop down quite a bit, often to f/16 or f/22. I find that, when shooting macro, IBIS is pretty useless.
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