Hand-holding Adventures

Snowgirl

I haven't had a lot of time to play with my macro gear of late, but decided to make the effort today.

Armed with my 1DMKIV loaded with the 65mm MPE I headed out into the garden to see if it were, indeed, possible for me to handhold macro shots. I have learned that the answer is probably...no.

Thoughts?

#1 Lilac


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basflt

Snowgirl wrote: »

I have learned that the answer is probably...no.

:nono wrong , these are great

Lord Vetinari

Look pretty good to me !
There are some techniques with handholding the MPE-65. Firstly when above 1:1 , in most cases you need to be using flash. You can also stabilise everything a lot if you can hold part of the subject in your left hand and then rest the camera lens on the same hand. This makes it much easier to focus. I also tend to walk around with a pole when doing shots- where I can't hold part of the subject I hold the pole and part of the camera (normally the lens).
Brian v.

Snowgirl

basflt wrote: »

:nono wrong , these are great

You're very kind, thank you.

GOLDENORFE

not too bad , agree you realy do need flash to freeze motion blur handholding.