I consider myself a fairly avid photography hobbyist, mostly landscapes, but my reef tank photography embarrasses me. Two things I am working on are macros and top downs. Curious what everyone is running for a macro lens. I have a 28mm macro and an 80mm macro and a 210mm With the 28mm I'm smooshed up against the glass but get decent shots, with the 80mm I feel like I'm standing across the room just to get on the focal range. I see a lot of people are using 80-100mm focal range. I feel like this puts me too far from the subject and find myself cropping all the way in to pixel peeping range just to get what I was going for. Is everyone else going in for a mega crop? Or just me. So far my favorite lens is honestly the kit lens at 50mm gets me pretty good shots, but I don't have as precise of focus control like I do with the macro. Top downs are my other headache. I do really enjoy a sexy top down shot. However when I attempt this I get an extreme haze that drives me bonkers, or I'm too far under the light and blocking the shot. I'm using just a standard floating look down box with the lens against the glass to avoid glare and reflection from the lights. I've had a couple really good top down shots that I've gotten very lucky on, and would like to figure out how I can repeat the process.
Sony a7. Always shoot in raw and correct in light room.
Also still trying to get my white balance manually dialed in. Half tempted to get a waterproof grey card .
Sony a7. Always shoot in raw and correct in light room.
Also still trying to get my white balance manually dialed in. Half tempted to get a waterproof grey card .