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Alternatives to Buying a Dedicated Macro Lens for your DSLR

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Anton
on February 4, 2008
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Digital photography school have a post on alternatives to buying a dedicated macro lens (some of these work with some compact cameras too)

Also worth mentioning is their post with some links to guides on taking photos of water drops
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These are what I came up with when I first tried - I like the idea of drops hitting an apple though

The sharp details

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Anton
on January 2, 2008
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While a friend was staying with me a few days ago, we decided to get out the macro camera gear. We wandered around the house looking for something that took our fancy, and came across a couple of cacti I have. It turns out the spiky little things are quite interesting close-up. My EFs-60mm macro lens took all the photos below, except the last one which was taken with my friends lens and about 45mm of extension tubes

Cactus

Red Cactus

Green Cactus

Cactus Cactus
Cactus Cactus

Oddly enough, the cacti that looked the most interesting, were the ones with the larger spikes, and they looked better when slightly further out. The extension tubes allowed us to get closer than 1:1 (which is what my lens does), but that didnt make any of the photos more interesting.