Thanks Satish ji for valuable tips. I am slowly learning to get better and better results with tips from friends and trying different options. I was mostly using Aperture priority option. While on trip my son suggested fully auto feature, manual focus and flash. It worked well. The flash pops up whenever needed, and I am getting better results when keeping object at reasonable distance, say 40-60 cm. Once I bring it nearer say 30-35 cm, I have to hold the camera with both hands to make it steady, otherwise if I hold the object in one hand and camera in another hands, it shakes when I click. One thing I have known that Canon 550D and 100 mm macro are good combination, only I have to understand them better.
-- Dr. Gurcharan Singh Retired Associate Professor SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 http://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Satish Phadke <[email protected]>wrote: > You have shared the same problem as I had when I purchased the same macro > lens. > Initially I also thought that life is easy for macro photography with this > lens. It is not fully true. > 1) Small Aperture(2.8 or 3.2 etc.) will keep only a part of the large > flower like anther in focus while the flower becomes blur. > 2) If the aperture setting is high say 15 or more all parts of the flower > will be in focus including some surroundings but to get adequate light the > shutter will remain open for a longer time and one can't keep the hand > steady for that long and the end result is burred pictured if the camera is > hand held. To prevent this you need to use the flash(Accepting some of its > limitations) > OR > If light is bright and good say a sunny bright morning and actual sun rays > not falling on flowers. You can get good depth accepting Aperture of 5.6 or > 4.5 getting a reasonable shutter speed to prevent hand shake(and flower > shake due to wind) > This macro lens is a telephoto lens and one has to go away from the object > to get it into the field of vision. > I hope I have shared what I do with same lens as you are using. > Tripod is not practical in most field visits though it may be ideal. > Satish Phadke > > On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Gerris2 <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I am actually an avid manual focus lens user and 99% of the time I use >> even my autofocus lenses in manual mode for macro photography. I feel I >> have more control in making the photograph. So, in this regard we are alike >> :-) . > > > > > -- > Dr Satish Phadke >
