Close Up On Nature
I have walked outside many times at dusk on a warm summer night, taken a long look at the roses covered with hundreds of dewdrops and thought, I wish I had a photo of that. I finally got a macro lens for my Nikon D50 on my fourteenth birthday. When I received it I thought that photography would be different, but it wasn't quite as I pictured it to be. I may have finally been capable to photograph the roses, but I still faced plenty of obstacles.
I would go out into the yard with my camera on its tripod, set the timer, and think that I have gotten the perfect shot when a massive gust of wind would pick up and blurt the photo. When the wind would finally die down, I would have to find a different flower because there were no longer any dewdrops left on the other one. I would debate with myself if I wanted to focus on the droplets on the petal or on the leaf, like the one shown on the left, which has been focused on the leaf.
As frustrating as getting the perfect shot may be, it pays off when you look at the photo later and say to yourself, that didn't turn out that bad. It's always nice to have a camera to help you see the smallest details on the flower petal, or the water droplets on the blade of grass. My dad always told me that I would have fun with a macro lens, and as usual he was right. I will never tire of seeing the smallest details of the world, making everything around us seem so large by comparison to the small blade of grass that is being photographed.
I would go out into the yard with my camera on its tripod, set the timer, and think that I have gotten the perfect shot when a massive gust of wind would pick up and blurt the photo. When the wind would finally die down, I would have to find a different flower because there were no longer any dewdrops left on the other one. I would debate with myself if I wanted to focus on the droplets on the petal or on the leaf, like the one shown on the left, which has been focused on the leaf.
As frustrating as getting the perfect shot may be, it pays off when you look at the photo later and say to yourself, that didn't turn out that bad. It's always nice to have a camera to help you see the smallest details on the flower petal, or the water droplets on the blade of grass. My dad always told me that I would have fun with a macro lens, and as usual he was right. I will never tire of seeing the smallest details of the world, making everything around us seem so large by comparison to the small blade of grass that is being photographed.