Calico Pennant Portrait

I got a dSLR a month ago. For those who are familar with my work,

do you think the new camera is giving better quality?

great sharpness at point of interest (eye), pretty good depth of field too. great colors

I yearn to get one that clear. I'm saving for a Digital Rebel!

!!!!Alien!!!! great!!!!

Superb image and great PS work!!

Excellent

The digital camera must be easier to use in this application. I think the quality of this is great, but I also thought that of your earlier work too. I know extra effort was made to increase the DOF here, but I still think more would be nice. I know that is asking a lot.

 

As awesome a creature (and photograph) as this is, there are one or two people who will be revulsed by it and will refuse to look at it objectively. But not me; it must be the biologist in me taking hold. Nice work. Regards.

Mark, yes I did notice you are using new equipment. There's a difference, in particular, less noise (in the backgrounds mostly) and better color rendition.

I wonder about your choice of lens. I see you're using the EF100/2.8 macro, which is a great lens to go up to 1:1. Really sharp. But given your style of very powerful magnifications, I wonder why you didn't buy the MP-E65 instead. I'm considering this lens myself and I wonder what was your main reasoning to choose the EF100/2.8 instead (I've the EF100/2.8 and is a great lens, but as I said, it stops where the MP-E65 begins)

-regards, Gerard.

Gerard-I drool at the thought of the mp-e65. But since I am new to SLR's, I thought I would start with a more basic macro lens. With the 2xTC, extention tubes, closeups, and/or reversing lenses, I can exceed 1:1. Now that I have gained some experience with the SLR, I can appreciate the mp-e65 all the more and it is thus high on my wish list. Maybe I will get one next year.

I still mean that dSLR are little bit more difficult to make wonderfull macro,since it deals with totaly new way to shot,heavier equipments,not easy to handle in the field,new way to thinking about subject,working distance is different with those lenses,maybe litlle help coul be provided with some closeup lenses (+3 or more),magnification ratio is heavier to get over life size since the CCD sensor is bigger than in prosumer cameras,DOF is very hard to get because of the lenses ,but I think that is worth to handle with dSLR because the result you are getting looks more professional,with more details and subtle colours,by the way Mark, did you ever try to make some macro shots on film,mean not on digital media,on real film like Kodak or Fuji,when you scan such shot with a good scanner and even in better resolution than digital, I think that you could get more details and possibilities to cropp more dramaticali to obtain better quality.I will try very soon.

 

--my regards for succsesfull macro work as you are insipring to go further..:-))

 

--darko

Thanx to all for the feedback.

Darko asks, "did you ever try to make some macro shots on film, mean not on digital media, on real film like Kodak or Fuji"?

I haven't. I find film cameras very frustrating because of the delayed feedback. In fact, the increased delay in the feedback with the dSLR as compared to the prosumer digital is probably the thing I like the least about it. That is, in order to see what you got, you have to move your eyes from the view finder to the LCD. With the prosumer digital, you used the LCD to take the shot at wysisyg (what you saw is what you got). The feedback is immediate without any delay at all. Futhermore, the optical viewfinder on the dSLR only shows the plain of focus while the LCD shows the image the camera will take. Yes, you can use the depth of field preview buttion on the dSLR, but then the image is typically much darker than it will be in real life.

This is also what I think,but sometimes when I read about closeup photography (John Shaw -Closeup photography) I really have a wish to try it.

Amazing Shot! Congratulations.