Close Up and Personal
I don’t have a macro lens for my camera. Now that I’m starting to take more pictures of flowers and plants and small things around the house I’d really like to get one.
It’s funny how your needs change. When I was young I took photos of trains and racing cars and wanted the longest lens I could get my hands on. Later on I was mainly taking pictures of buildings and landscapes and wanted the widest lens I could afford. Now I’m doing tiny things and a macro would be nice but in the meantime I’ll go with what I have.
As always when I’m short of photographic subjects my dolls come to the rescue. Here are some vintage dolls. I have cropped these a bit so the backgrounds would not be distracting.
Finally, one I prepared earlier.
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If you don’t want to photograph bugs or insects but mostly flowers, a short macro will do the trick I think. My 40mm macro is a bit too short for my taste but it’s cool for inside macro shots of tiny things. For outside, I’d probably enjoy a 60mm more, I don’t know. Any focal length above that would be even cooler but more expensive, harder to use, and I’ve never been able to justify purchasing a 100mm as I don’t do macro often enough.
I know what you mean with change. Sometimes you want to discover new things. At the moment I’d like to put my eyes on a wide-angle lens, something like a 10-20mm or so as I am a bit bored with what I usually do. But I couldn’t justify the purchase yet either because it might just be a mood. But I am subscribed to used ones on Ebay because, with the right deal, I might consider it.
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I can feel the smoothness of your polished rocks. Wonderful post for this week 😀
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