Macro Fun In The Garden With Extension Tubes And Flash

Up until the end of June, I'm going to be producing colour photographs exclusively - no black and whites for me - and I've always found flowers and plants a great source of rich colours and interesting subjects.

I screwed the m42-ef lens onto my Canon EOS 350d / Digital Rebel XT, then added a few extension tubes, which transforms my old m42 manual focus Soligor 90-230mm zoom into a macro set-up. Then I headed off out into our garden, among the flowers, fruits and vegetables, to see what I could find.

I used my tripod for must of the shots, but by using my 350d's pop-up flash I managed some hand-holding too. As you'll see from the pictures, when shooting macro with extension tubes your depth-of-field (how much of the shot is in focus) gets really small, so only a small part of the photos are sharp.

Post processing was handled by Adobe Camera RAW & Photoshop, plus I've started to play around with a Nik Photoshop plug-in, Viveza 2, so more on that in a few weeks when I'll post a review.

I hope you enjoy the photographs, then maybe grab a lens adapter, an old lens and extension tubes, and enjoy some macro photography on the cheap.

Cheers, Rob.

Comments

[Wesley]

Nice photos, Rob.