my macro shots with kit lens..

croomaniac · May 5, 2008

hi all, these are my macro shots with kit lens.. i'm using Sony A200 with 1870 kitlens.. C&C Welcomed..

#1 among the many

#2 the purple 1

#3 i wanna grow up

#4 the orangie

#5 the purple 2

#6 the yellowish

ianm · May 5, 2008

hmmm, nice and all, but everyone does flowers, all look a bit samey after a while. no 3 is kinda nice

croomaniac · May 5, 2008

thanks! hehe.. somehow, everyone is doing flowers and bugs! somehow bugs irritate me though ;-p

ianm · May 5, 2008

Lol - not had the opportunity to go for bugs, seen some nice ones though.
I've been trying macros lately too, but i think it's pretty neat how you get so close as I seem not to be getting that close at the minute using the kit lens on mine

Chris Stegner · May 5, 2008

They are nice, except that all look soft to me except for number 3

ianm · May 5, 2008

how do you mean soft?

asfixiate · May 5, 2008

See how in the yellow flower the edges are obvious and the others are almost blended? Even some of the edges are sort of blurry looking?

By soft they mean not sharp. My take on soft is the highlights, edges, faces, are almost faded in a way instead of crisp.

Another way I look at soft is if I could pull an object out of the picture it would come out by itself. When its soft its almost pulling the same object would pull the whole image.

I cant' really describe it other than not as crisp/sharp.

Per these pictures though it looks like the autofocus was centered somewhere other than the entire flower causing the softness. If you look at part of all the shots there's a really sharp section in all.

ianm · May 5, 2008

right, i get what you mean by looking at no 3 and the others now

Chris Stegner · May 5, 2008

I just think they look "soft". By that I mean lack of sharpness? Am not being clear? I don't mean to be rude, I just don't understand what you're asking

asfixiate · May 5, 2008

They were not sure what soft meant...its as easy as that. Easiest way I could describe it was not sharp. The edges were not as obvious, etc.

I think its just a focusing issue. There's really sharp parts to all the shots.

Mav · May 5, 2008

They look sharp to me. There's very little depth of field at the long end and at close focus, even stopped down. Most of the softness I see is due to just plain being out of the focus plane.

asfixiate · May 5, 2008

+1 Mav.

croomaniac · May 5, 2008

hi all! thanks for your comment

the fact that it is being soft is that after i resized it, i saved it with the quality of 7, that is why i thin kit kinda soft.. in the first picture, i do think that my camera focuses the flower on the right compared to the centre.. on pic no 5, i do think that i shouldn't took same colour background for the same coloured subject.. it will somehow confuse the viewer? nway thanks for the comment! appreciate it!