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How to take great close ups?

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andreas Joined: May 02 Points: 8309 Posts: 808 Posted: 2003-08-05 23:45:00    Hi guys, I would like to open this new forum "Digital Photography" with a question regarding close ups. I am a big enthusiast when it comes to close up pictures. Especially when you have some colorful detailed motives in nature. Recently I dumped into a picture of an ant, taken reaaaaly close! How are those guys doing that? I mean they are for sure not standing 1 cm infront of the animal, are they? Can anybody shed a bit of light on that? ;-) thanx, Andy Reply    Reply with quote    Contact andreas   inzaghi Joined: Jun 02 Points: 3862 Posts: 87 Posted: 2003-08-06 15:51:00    Good macro lenses (that usually cost a bit). And a love for creepy crawlies with hairy feeeeet. My new Canon 10D is arriving in a week or two, and I plan to purchase a macro lens after a good zoom lens, but it would be used for macro flowers shots since I hate all insects. :) --- Lover of just five things - travelling, photography, thick crust pizzas, the xy-chromosomes, the Italians and the Dutch. Well, I can't count, so? Reply    Reply with quote    Contact inzaghi   morc66 Premium account Joined: Jun 02 Points: 2383 Posts: 75 Posted: 2003-09-02 12:11:00    I used to have a my macros taken with my oldest camera... I still have it, but hardly use it any more: a Praktica MTL-5b One of the last mechanical Praktica's with only a TTL light meter. With that I still have a whole range of extra's.. they were cheap... even when I bought them (I was a student back then) The macros I did with a whole set of rings I picked up for 2 Euro's ... and a film camera light (500 Watt, you needed to take photo's quick, before you vapourized the subject ;-]) I could not afford the ring light. I did not attempt macro's using my new digital cam yet... Cheers, Maurice --- See more photo's: www.flickr.com/photo-s/27408834@N05/ See the current Diveblog: mauricedeboer.blogspot.com Reply    Reply with quote    Contact morc66