Digital Photo Tips

When I first got my micro lens, I have problems with bokeh or blurred out spots on photos I took with that lens. I ranted about it in my previous post ‘Bokeh driving me nuts‘.

Shaolin Tiger left me some useful tips :

ShaolinTiger, Said:
on June 21st, 2007 at 3:12 pm

Macro you need to use at least f/11-16 and use a flash.

Shutter speeed 1/125 and above, ideally around 1/200, ISO200-400 should be fine.

I took a photo of these tiny white flowers yesterday. The above used an aperture of f3.0.

Camera: Nikon D40
Exposure: 0.013 sec (1/80)
Aperture: f/3
Focal Length: 105 mm

Note the blurred background? So, I experimented with smaller aperture.

Camera: Nikon D40
Exposure: 0.4 sec (2/5)
Aperture: f/16
Focal Length: 105 mm

Both using aperture priority settings. I am still struggling with all manual settings.

So, now, I am a little bit more aware of the effects of how the aperture setting affects the photo.

Tiny steps but I am improving…

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