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Chinese New Year cheese tart

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Chinese New Year in DC.

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My friend's baby. This was one of a series of 20 portraits I took of her while testing the 100mm f/2.8L macro on my 7D. I got ten keepers out of the series which I was fairly happy with, seeing as it was my first real go with a new lens!
IS was turned on, spot AF, and I used a camera-mounted 580EX II pointing straight up at the white ceiling for that fantastic splash of natural-looking light it gives you. I profiled the camera with an X-Rite ColorChecker Passport to confirm colour accuracy.

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Hi Sync! Very nice photos. I left the following comment on your flickr as it can be better for posterity:

Thanks very much for the comment! I was very impressed with the performance of this combo for portraits and I'm amazed people don't go on about it more.
Good point about the catch-light... now you mention it it is quite distracting... it's all I can see!

I imagine it's fantastic, if not a bit long on a crop body. I remember reading in a number of books that macro lens double as great portrait lenses. I'm sure it's true

One thing I haven't heard much about, probably because I don't read about macros a lot, is the AI SERVO + USM feature on the actual "Macro" lenses on a 7D... I saw it mentioned in the B&H videos but haven't seen a peep about it elsewhere.

Let's play a game of "What the Hell is that!"
I've been reading a bit about how to turn a lens around for macro shots. This photo was a combination of my 100 f/2.8 macro and old, crappy 18-55 kit lens from my original DRebel. The kit lens was turned backwards, fixed at almost 55mm. I don't have proper rigging to hold the lens in place, so it was handheld while the camera was on a tripod.

Round 1.

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Another view of same subject.

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MizzouMan_2000 wrote in post #11812690
Another view of same subject.

contacts on the battery grip that go into the camera body.

aaronhentges wrote in post #11812881
contacts on the battery grip that go into the camera body.

Damn you're good

Round 2:

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MizzouMan_2000 wrote in post #11812895
Damn you're good

Round 2:

kinda resembles a poker chip but not sure

KenjiS wrote in post #11811861
Experimenting with the 7D's Wireless off-camera flash and my 580EXII, Also using the built in for fill......

What do you guys think? im generally very bad with flash :<

Both f/8, 1/80, ISO200, Sigma 50mm f/1.4

I like this first shot the most. Like the colour and set up of this shot.......I also REALLY want that bottle of vodka!! LOL

MizzouMan_2000 wrote in post #11812668
Let's play a game of "What the Hell is that!"

Actually, there's already a thread for that (super macro guessing game 3), but it seems to be on a bit of a hiatus. Maybe you can revive it. You can go back to the first posts to see how it started.
Enjoy playing with macro. It's tons of fun!