First Macro atempt, first photo post

[Naytwan]

Be gentle, no where near as good as alot of the photos on this board. I used some cheap ebay Close-up Filters. I stacked a number 1,2, and 4. I used my 20D, Sigma 500 DG Super and 28-135 IS at 135.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v425/naytwan/Macro/Macro-010.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v425/naytwan/Macro/Macro-013.jpg

I'll do better next time. I'm considering a ring flash or some other sort of lighting.

[blueskybutterfly]

cool :) I like things up close :)

[c0ntr0lz]

wow thats close
look pretty good

[Naytwan]

Thanks. Oh and just incase you didn't know, that second pic is a notebook hard drive controller board.

[Raj]

Nice close-ups :-)

[michael.luczkow]

is that a laptop hard drive?

[Naytwan]

Yeah. One of the techs at work gave me like 5 of them.

[mjordan]

Since these are static shots and if you have a tripod, close your fstop down to at least f16 or even f22 and get the max depth of field you can. The coins would have been a pretty neat picture had you had them all in focus... or at least, try to get everything from the front towards the back in focus. It's usually ok to let the background go out of focus as that keeps the interest point at the front of the picture. But it throws off the picture if the front is out of focus as well. So put the camera on a tripod and stop it down. You will be surprised at how much depth of field you can get and how it will improve the shots.

Mike