Nifty Fifty Macro?

No, I guess not. However, I am really having a good time with my new Canon EF 50mm 1.8, so I thought I would post these for fun.

I was taking a few shots of flowers when this bee happened along. Yeah, pretty heavily cropped and not up to the normal standards here, but LOL, my standards are lower until I can afford a real macro lens.

Bee 1

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Well... No one siad I suck, I guess that is better than nothing at all.

it doesnt suck at all, I like it

pretty good for just the 50mm- odd eyes the bee has.
If you get a set of Kenko ext tubes you coulod get over 1:1 with that lens.
Brian V.

LOL, I went from feeling bad that no one commented and now a compliment from LordV. No kidding here at all, I feel really good right now. Not that you're chopped liver ragingMike, but after all... LordV

I have admired your work here since I became a member.

you got to start somewhere. should have seen my first few post here . those were bad but hey i though they look good then.

Bill

they turned out well. i have that lense too, and it has not left my camera since i bought it.
great job.
shannon

These look really good Franz. I don't usually go into the macro forum so I just saw the images. Let me know if you want to borrow my Canon tubes to see if they work for you.

dilorenzo1954 wrote in post #3756527
These look really good Franz. I don't usually go into the macro forum so I just saw the images. Let me know if you want to borrow my Canon tubes to see if they work for you.

Thanks Ed, I may just do that. I just got back fro a week on the East coast. I have a ton of pictures to process. I am going to be sending my camera in with both of my Sigma lenses to have the lenses calibrated to the camera. I had them calibrated once and did not send the camera with them. They cam back OK, but need to be better. There is still a back-focus problem.

When I get all of the equipment back, I may want to try those tubes.

Are you coming to the Renaissance Faire?

No, can't make it to the Renaissance Faire.

Here is another one that I took this past week with the Nifty Fifty.

A Night Blooming Cirrus

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