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Oh those fabulous extension tubes! This sight must be what turns bees on… 😉
10. July, 2010 at 08:19
Extension tubes? WHAT extension tubes? This was strictly 60mm macro 🙂
10. July, 2010 at 08:34
Wow, really? Damn, your 60mm gets really close. No cropping here??
11. July, 2010 at 10:56
Yup, REALLY close! 🙂 I cropped very little, most (if not all) was cropped off the side to get the 3.5×5 crop. I’ll e-mail you a comparison so you can see.
11. July, 2010 at 11:53
Really incredible. I’m guessing I haven’t pushed my 105mm as far as it can go. I will need to! 🙂
11. July, 2010 at 13:37
ooh, lovely color combo!
10. July, 2010 at 10:29
Tracy, maybe my 60mm is just better than your 105mm 😉
11. July, 2010 at 13:41
Nah…my 105mm kicks ass! 🙂
11. July, 2010 at 13:48
Oh! Well… in that case… I guess my skills are better than yours 😉 LOL
11. July, 2010 at 13:49
This is a really cool shot, I love how it focus on that part of the subject and everything else used as background, beautiful
11. July, 2010 at 20:08
very dreamy!
11. July, 2010 at 21:08
Oh, lenses I have so much to learn! I think if you don’t mind, I may be leaning on you photogs quite a bit for advice on what to do next. The world of lenses boggles my mind; I have a very poor handle on how to even compare what the difference between something like a 60mm and a 105mm would be.
12. July, 2010 at 07:40
Understanding all this will come with time and practice. It took me quite awhile to understand what each of my lenses did!
In a nutshell, the main difference between the 60mm and the 105mm is, with the 105mm, I have a longer working distance, meaning, I don’t have to get as close to the subject to achieve the same level of magnification. This is a good thing when photographing subjects like butterflies and other skittish creatures who may not like a huge eye getting too close.
12. July, 2010 at 09:59
I guess the question that would follow here would be, how do you know what level of magnification you will get from a lens?
12. July, 2010 at 14:08
Oh, boy. This is a tough one. All lenses have a magnification factor. Both the 60mm and the 105mm have the same magnification factor (1:1), so both lenses produce really great macro shots. With the 60mm, you just have to get closer to the subject to do it (as it has a shorter focal length than the 105mm).
I grabbed this off of the Photography 101 site:
“Macro lenses will often be described by their “magnification factor”. A lens with a 1:1 magnification factor produces a projected image on the sensor which is the same as the subject. So the image of a 20mm diameter coin will span 20mm of the physical sensor, resulting in an image which will nearly fill the entire frame of a typical DSLR. A 1:1 magnification factor is usually considered the minimum for a lens to be described as a “macro” lens. Specialist macro lenses are often 1:3 or even 1:10 magnification factors, meaning that 1mm across the subject becomes 3mm or 10mm when projected onto the sensor, thus 3 or 10 times magnification.”
Read more: http://digital-photography-school.com/photography-101-lenses-light-and-magnification#ixzz0tUxbJBcP
Both Michaela and I have used extension tubes WITH our macro lenses to increase our magnification factors (thus making really tiny things such as dandelion seeds completely fill the frame).
12. July, 2010 at 14:37