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Canon 10D Macros
I found a few minutes this evening to experiment with an area of photography that I have virtually no experience and, until recently at least, no interest in. Macro photography, and in particular macro photography of flowers, has never sparked my imagination. I mean, if you’ve seen one photo of a flower, then you’ve seen them all, right?
Err, wrong actually. Now that I can actually see and review what I’ve just taken a photo of, I’m willing to try out new things, including, would you believe it, macro photography. So here’s a few shots of flowers taken with the 10D and the macro function on my Tamron zoom lens (which isn’t strictly speaking a macro lens at all).
*Note 1: Macro number 3 is actually a 500x333 pixel crop from Macro 2.
*Note 2: I have adjusted the images slightly in Photoshop - levels, contrast, USM, the usual things…
*Note 3: The 10D can save an image as both a RAW file and a JPEG file at the same time. All of these images are the small JPEGs that the camera created.
*Note 4: If anyone’s interested in seeing a full-size, unedited RAW file, then let me know, and I’ll maybe email something to you.
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#1 Sean
Um... hrm... the thumbs look good but the popup seems broken, no image. The detail in that third one looks amazing. Nice symmetry in that second one.
11:25 pm - Friday, April 11, 2003
#2 Mark Goldstein
All of the pop-ups are broken? They all work for me...What about the other images on the Photos page?
12:07 am - Saturday, April 12, 2003
#3 Sean
um... hrm... user error on my print i think. nevermind. ignore me. i really like the 3rd one. you nailed the dof which isn't all that easy with macro.
6:43 am - Saturday, April 12, 2003
#4 Mark Goldstein
The aperture for this shot was f/22 with a shutter speed of 10 seconds at ISO 100.
2:53 pm - Saturday, April 12, 2003
#5 j m rowland
ALL the popups are broken. I get a blank window entitled "justsowindow"
The fancy navigation trick is cute... but why not build your site with navigation that the majority of browsers can handle? You've crippled your site.
6:24 am - Wednesday, August 6, 2003
#6 Marc
ok for me - XP, IE6.
2 and 3 remind me of the victorian paperweights that my grandmother had
11:31 am - Wednesday, August 6, 2003
#7 Mark Goldstein
What browser and platform are you using j m rowland? I can then try and figure out what's wrong.
I've been using this pop-up system for the last 6 months, since the site started, and this is the first report of it not working.
Mark
12:34 pm - Wednesday, August 6, 2003
#8 Francy in Baltimore
You post some pretty impressive pictures and you have more people complain about the link than comment on the pictures, sad. I recently bought and returned a 10D because I couldn't get the razor sharp focus and clarity you've managed to capture. I think there may have been an actual problem with the camera, but having bought it at BestBuy, I didn't have a whole lot of help available to show me either where I might have gone wrong or what might have been wrong with the camera. All I got was a floor sales person who took a picture with the floor model, one I'm sure hadn't been treated kindly by the customers, and then printed it on a cheap inkjet and told me my picture looked better than his so my camera must be fine. Anyway, I'm going to a real camera shop and think I may consider re-purchasing what in all ways looks to be an amazing camera. Thanks for the beautiful pictures!!!
12:09 am - Friday, February 20, 2004
#9 Mark Goldstein
Thanks Francy - glad you like the pictures
I've changed the system recently so no more complaints! I´ve never experienced any of the focussing problems with the 10D before, so it's worth trying one again.
1:24 pm - Monday, February 23, 2004
#10 dan johnson
I am very interested in your advice on macro photography with the 10D. I have one, and have some good luck with a Canon 100 mm flat field with ext tubes, but I could do better. The links to the photos on your note don't work for me - maybe broken now.
Dan
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2:17 pm - Wednesday, October 12, 2005
#11 Mark Goldstein
Hi Dan. Take a look at this album on my portfolio website:
http://www.markgoldstein.co.uk/gallery/macro
They were all taken with the 10D and Canon 100mm f2.8 macro lens, mostly hand-held.
2:25 pm - Wednesday, October 12, 2005