A friend of mine on another forum posted this in one of my threads over there, he used my photos out of my thread to do the artwork. Great answers from navaneethan viswanathan and prasad basavaraj. This close working distance creates unique challenges in lighting and framing photographs, but by forcing perspective it creates images with. Wide angle macro, how to get closer macro and still life. Why you should sometimes embrace the distortion of wide. If you discount the dark vignetted areas, the resulting image is not much wider than the lens to which this adapter is attached. Venus optics introduces the ultrawideangle macro lens.
Something as simple as shooting a subject from a high vantage point or down at ground level can give you a picture that is dramatically different from what you get with telephoto and normal lenses. Best books on macro photography have camera will travel. You can use them alone, or in combination to produce very special images. You will most likely have to adjust the settings depending on whether you are shooting macro or wide angle, but this is a good starting spot. For this modest sum you get some 93 pages with a wealth. When shooting with a wideangle lens on an extension tube, compose each shot as if it were a landscape. The macro can be used alone to ensure highlydetailed, close up shots. The wide angle lets the image show a lot of what one sees with one. The effects are different when a macro is run from a form versus when a macro is run from the navigation pane. This means its possible to explore the miniature world around us as fullscale creations allowing photographers and viewers to get within inches of. Each installment focuses on a photographic shooting scenario, a piece of gear, or a software technique. Integrates with microsoft outlook and allows you to save your emails as pdf files to your computer. The laowa 15mm macro lens is an exercise in fun and sometimes frustration, but it might cure your boredom the laowa 15mm macro lens is exactly what it sounds like an extremely wide angle lens that focuses as close as 1.
They should make the front of the macro lens female and the back of the wideangle lens male so you can screw the front half directly into a 58mm lens thread or adapter ring. As the second argument, you specify the field label for the field in which the user enters. Compared to my usual dslr setup, the lens was much smaller, allowing me to approach. In reply to albertthelazy jan 21, 2016 thanks for your input, i have had the raynox, its quite nice and i liked it, but i want to go wider, see the videos i posted in this thread for example. A not terribly technical overview of wide angle macrophotography and some of my thoughts on the venuslaowa 15mm macro lens.
Your smartphones camera is pretty great for what it is, but its fixed focal length limits the kinds of shots you can get. He is a bit of a photoshop legend, pity hes a canon shooter. Macro photography is typically a type of closeup photography. Venus optics has just announced a new fullframe wideangle macro lens with 1. Tried it with a 50mm prime lens, a 28mm prime lens and a 1855mm zoom. The essential guide is dedicated, detailed and delightful a far cry from your typical howto photography. A not terribly technical overview of wideangle macrophotography and some of my thoughts on the venuslaowa 15mm macro lens. The wide angle lens must be used in conjunction with the macro lens. Dear imagej users, i have been trying to measure orientation of fine lines in an image utilizing fft. I like experimenting with different setups, especially for wide angle closeups. How wideangle macro photography can help you capture. A rare accomplishment, an ultrawideangle lens that still offers true macro close focus, will allow.
What that means is that you can theoretically photograph tiny things so close up that they take up the same amount of space on your sensor as they occupy in. Using your cameras lowest iso is also a good starting point to minimize noise in the image. Get angle and spacing information from the peak position in the fft result i have confirmed that it is possible to. Is it just another way of saying wide lens with macro or is it a macro lens that is wider angle than the usual macro lenses. Wide angle a journal of literature and film samford. And you can get in close with other lenses as well, especially wide angle and fisheye lenses. I enjoy working with different equipment to get close to subjects with a camera, but i especially like adding thin extension tubes to shorter focal length lenses to create wide angle closeups. Search results for wide angle macro the smaller majority. Wideangle macro puts a whole new perspective on close. I got a wideangle with macro thrown in with my rebel kit purchase but no explanation what it was, model. The note 8 isnt just about wiping away the memory of the flamin note 7, its also about the debut of a new camera arrangement, a camera thats very likely to find its way into the galaxy s9 in. Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world.
I am looking for information on the use of wide angle lenses and extension tubes for close up photography. A lightweight setup for wide angle macro to give you more. The internal number of a planning object is often needed in other macro functions. The wideangle and macro lens will likely work better on a threaded camera lens where you can mount it closer. Stepping through macro arrow and highlighting moves through macro as steps are executed. The converter consist of two separate parts, a wide angle w part and a macro m part.
It conveniently mounts to the front of your fixed or zoom lens and allows you to capture a wider field of view. On this scene i used a 35mm lens mounted on a 12mm tube. Wideangle macro photography expert photography blogs. All conversions performed locally on your pc no uploading sensitive documents to an online service.
Many macro actions require additional information, called the parameters of the action. Adding extension tubes between the lens and camera adds macro capability to different. Something different with a series of personal accounts about specific images with subjects. In order for the illusion that you are a lilliput looking at the giant world to work, the background of a wideangle macro shot should be well and evenly lit, and the frontmost, focal. Whats the difference between wide angle, prime, macro. The book also offers insights about macro photo composition, discussing light, color, camera position. A macro lens allows you to focus in to an object which is very close to the camera. Show off your favorite photos and videos to the world, securely and privately show content to your friends and family, or blog the photos and videos you take with a cameraphone. The main problem is that these lenses are so different from the way we normally see the world, which makes it easy to use them incorrectly. I purchased a canon 60mm macro lens, but the focal length is a bit lon. Then there are those who are entrenched at longer focal lengths, while others are obsessed with macro lenses. The laowa 15mm f4 wide angle macro is the widest lens in the world to offer 1. The essential guide is dedicated, detailed and delightful a far cry from your typical howto photography book.
The macro lens why it should be your second lens purchase. Buy digital macro photography 1st edition by ross hoddinott isbn. Wide angle macro and the venuslaowa 15mm macro lens. The full converter screws on the filter thread of my sigma dc 1850mm f2. Photographers can focus very close to the subject and let the foreground dominates in the photo but at the same time, have the background telling viewers about where and how the subject lives. When i look back at the photographs i have taken over the years, i find that i am interested in both macro and landscape equally, and now i have budget for just one lens, and its between sigma 150mm f2. Most photographers have a favorite lens to shoot with, a lens that is attached to the front of their camera more often than not. David buschs closeup and macro photography compact field. For a tripod, a gitzo 6x, 4 section explorer, and off center ballhead, all available from adorama, gets the camera down to ground level easily.
A 50mm is a common preference since its useful for a variety of photographic scenarios. Part 2 includes several detailed accounts of some of the authors favorite wideangle macro portraits, behindthescenes info and a gallery of similar or related images. It is a subdivision of wide angle, as the name suggests, comprising of images taken at camera to subject distances of less than about two feet 60cm. I will add a bit about why you want to use these different lenses. Close focus wide angle cfwa is a very popular technique in underwater photography. Each one concludes with a call to action designed to inspire you to pick up your camera or your mouse or smartphone to try the technique for yourself. Wide angle lenses and how to use them photography life. There have been some interesting developments lenses, lighting and cameras in the possibilities available for extending the scope of wideangle macro using micro 43 since clay bolt and i published wideangle macro the essential guide which will very soon be updated a promise. A wideangle is one that shows a wider view than the human eye normally takes in. Join ben long for an indepth discussion in this video, understanding the wideangle macro lens, part of the practicing photographer. Enhance your smartphones camera with cheap clipon lenses.
The images will be used to capture surface contours using photomodeler software. They produce 20mm, 24mm and 28mm af lenses that are extremely sharp, offer a maximum f1. Wide angle lens or wide angle zoom can add special effects to your images which you cant get with other lenses. Tackling subject matter both in the field and in the studio. As a wide angle adapter, it is sort of disappointing. A 100mm lens, for instance, will give you the view of a 45mm lens using this 0. The complete guide to macro and closeup photography ebook. A few days ago i posted the first part of an introduction to wideangle macrophotography, and here is the conclusion. But you can take closeup photos with lenses that dont magnify at 1. If you dont shoot in the genres listed above either, like if you shoot mostly wideangle landscapes or indoors environmental portraits, youd probably be better suited by nonmacro lenses as well, such as a wideangle zoom lens or a fast 35mm prime. They are usually a standard or shorttelephoto lens such as 100mm on a 35mm camera but you can also get wideangle macros. Wideangle lenses are incredibly popular for landscape photographers, but they can be very tricky to use. Refer to the following table to find the macro function of your choice. In the practicing photographer, photographer and teacher ben long shares a weekly serving of photographic instruction and inspiration.