First Macro Shots - Pls Help A Newbie

jc133

Hi, I am new to SM, dslr and macro. Currently do not have the moolah to get a macro lens, so trying to make the most of the entry level stuff in my sig. Pls help a newbie improve with your C&C, Thanks!
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Lord Vetinari

Welcom to the forum
Looks like you are doing well without any help
Lovely use of light and composition in these shots.

Only suggestions would be firstly to get a set of Kenko ext tubes so you can get a bit closer and secondly depending how your camera body behaves you may find more success with flowers shooting in natural light with a little bit of negative EC set on the camera (ie deliberate slight underexposure) - having said that I shoot RAW so can easily recover slight underexposure.

Brian V.

jc133

Thanks LordV. No 1& 3 needed some fill flash. Will try your -ev idea.

Skippy

jc133 wrote:

Hi, I am new to SM, dslr and macro. Currently do not have the moolah to get a macro lens, so trying to make the most of the entry level stuff in my sig. Pls help a newbie improve with your C&C, Thanks!

Hi there, and welcome to the Forum jc133.

Wow I was thinking the same thing Brian is,
you don't need to change anything your doing just fine

I'll second the idea of getting the Kenko Tubes, you won't be sorry.

These images are really really nice jc133 well done
... Skippy
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