> On May 2, 2020, at 12:55 PM, Dale H. Cook <radiot...@plymouthcolony.net> > wrote: > > Here is the first shot from my K-70 with my new smc Pentax-D FA Macro 100mm > lens.
It is one of my most often used. Many years ago I got an amazing deal on a dfa 50/2.8 macro, and have hardly touched it. On APS, I’m a big fan of the DA35 macro as a walkaround lens. One thing that it seems that people don’t consider is that angle of view is just as important for macro as it is for “regular” shooting, it’s just that with macro the AoV determines what is visible in the background, and I usually want to isolate my macro subjects from the background. Given my choice, and unlimited budget, I’d probably opt for an even longer (150-200mm) macro. All in all , the 100 macro is a wonderful lens. One nice thing about macro, is with a softbox on a speedlight (or any light source) it’s very easy to get Rembrandt lighting. Even in the lighting you’re working with, you could put your flash on a cheap extension cable, put a softbox on it, and with it just a few inches away from the blossom, it’ll pretty much overpower the light in the shade. > It is far from ideal as I have only begun to learn this lens, especially > getting the focus and depth of field where I want them. I wanted to > experiment with my bleeding heart, which is just past its peak and is in > perpetual shade. It is, however, my flower bed favorite (side note - as a > floriculturist I have ten brown thumbs). I have never before owned a macro > lens. With 35mm film I used diopters or, decades ago, an HCE Vari-Close-Up > lens, which was optically inferior to a single diopter, but darned convenient. > > https://plymouthcolony.net/photos/images/bleedingheart01.jpgI I quite like it, especially with the cinderblocks out of focus in the background. Some thoughts, purely from my own sense of aesthetics, feel free to ignore and disregard... If you could come in a little closer so that it was only the flowers and the cinderblocks, and not the other leaves and flowers, I think it would be awesome. Unfortunately, if you just crop it, you’d lose a lot of the cinderblock pattern. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
