Forum: Photography


Subject: macros- are they a tired genre?

bonbon opened this issue on Apr 25, 2002 ยท 30 posts


ASalina posted Fri, 26 April 2002 at 1:56 AM

A Single Grain of Sand Nestled Between Individual Moss Blossoms

I hope it's not tired! I just got my longevity check and
intend to blow it on some new (used) lenses. One of them
is a 100mm macro lens.

I'm not sure how to define macro though. The recent shot
of water drops on leaves (honeysuckle, in case anyone was
curious) was done in "macro focus" mode with my Canon G2,
with it's point-n-shoot lens. Just the bare lens though.
No macro adapters or anything.

I guess the trick is to find something unusual or particularly
good looking to shoot, no matter what the angle.

I agree with Bev, too, in that it's fun to explore the world
in close-up. I have a theory about photography in general
that goes something like: If you were to take a picture of
Earth from outer space that had fine enough detail to allow
you to crop and enlarge infinately, you would keep finding
more and more interesting and beautiful images, right down
to the sub-atomic level. Or something like that; I'm tired..