elkamino
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Sweet pix- color, exposure, focus are all spot on.
Is that just on-camera flash? Or other lighting?
Who's Got The Fostiest Buds? Let's See How Frosty A Bud Can Really Get?
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Is that just on-camera flash? Or other lighting?
Sativied
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Just the camera's flash indeed. http://www.amazon.com/Nikon-Digital-18-55mm-3-5-5-6-NIKKOR/dp/B007VGGFZUSweet pix- color, exposure, focus are all spot on.
Is that just on-camera flash? Or other lighting?
That close up is just 1 megapixel of the 24mp in the original picture and still slightly scaled down which sharpens it a bit too. The main 'trick' in my case seems to be to take pics in the dark. The flash is then strong enough that it uses a short shutter time, which means it doesn't blur if I move a little.
The reflective walls make new growth and yellowing stand out more, but it seems to work out nicely for bud shots.
elkamino
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Nice.
I'm a Canon guy, and have been playing around with $29 extension tubes on my 7D to get trich macro shots and LOVIN it. Super fun to get right in there and find the most photogenic trichs, and moving the light around til the pic sings.
Heres some Jack The Ripper chopped 3 days ago at day 60-ish. My 3rd run with this plant- a seed then a reveg then a clone of that reveg, 1 plant each round.
The first pic is full resolution if you want to click on it to see the trichs up closer.
thenotsoesoteric
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Nice photos man.
MuckyDucky
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This is Cotton Candy harvested at 75 days. After I fimed the top it grew into the light for several days. It is about half dried in this picture. This was all the plant put on too except for a few golfball sized nugs.
MuckyDucky
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Hey @elkamino! WOW! Now that looks potent! Nice pictures!
SirGreenThumb
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I'm currently using a Nikon Coolpix L820 but I'm not a specific type camera person I just want something that I can change out the lens and have more manual settings so any camera recommendations I would appreciate since I'm having trouble deciding which I want.
Here is about the best I can do with the camera I have and I just got a ring light and I have generic extension tubes so I can put random attachments on it like magnification lens but you have to get really really close, like within 1/2 an inch.
Mr.Head
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Link to the extension tube please
Wonderful shots.
Hammerhead571
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Will attempt a reveg on this 1... Coming down tonight
SDubb x Querkle (Walking Dead)
SDubb x Querkle (Walking Dead)
Hot Diggity Sog
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I bet she could blind you with the right light and angle
truepunk87
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Day 84.... Green Crack x Vitality (Flo x Kali Mist) aka. Hilltop Creeper 
elkamino
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Link to the extension tube please
Thanks!
There are LOTS of options for these on Amazon, ranging in price from hundreds down to $15:
The one I got's here:
http://www.amazon.com/Fotodiox-Canon-Extension-Extreme-Close-Ups/dp/B003Y60DZO
The extensions attach between the lens and the camera via standard mount and have NO optics. They simply move the lens further away from the image sensor, and doing so greatly enlarges the image on the sensor. With no glass, little engineering or expense is involved in production so its a place you can save $. Yes you can buy brand-name, and maybe get a better interface. But I shoot macro stuff entirely on manual so nothing is lost.
Still these things are difficult to use. I've been a photojournalist for 20+ years so photography comes pretty easy but I find these macro shots challenging. Mostly because the focal plane is very narrow, so I shoot at F16 or so to make it deeper. This does make the image require more light tho, aka flash on full power, so I burn through flash batteries pretty quick.
Many people opt to use tripods (I don't) because they can really help with maintaining focus, but I like to keep moving things around and tripod photography is too slow. If you can, experiment with all your different lenses to get slightly different magnifications and varying levels of ease-of-use, and despite manufacturer's claims that you can use the lens' autofocus, don't, because it barely works and is frustrating. Simply turn it off and move the camera SLIGHTLY forward or back to get focus sharp. The n shoot LOTS of frames...
elkamino
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That Nikon is a good camera and has good glass. But its not a digital SLR, and that means the sensor is quite a bit smaller. Even with 16MB it'll never be as sharp/detailed as a larger sensor, and that's the pixelization you see when its enlarged to 100%.
If 1/2" is too close for you, use a telephoto aka longer lens. It'll be even more challenging to use in some ways but it will allow you to be positioned further away.
Beer Belly
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Fruit Punch chop after 8 weeks
IB at 8 weeks chop should have gone a tad longer.
IB at 8 weeks chop should have gone a tad longer.
elkamino
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Right on. You've a Nikon DSLR, right? I think you'll be stoked with your purchase. There is a bit of a learning curve but from the pix you've posted you obviously already know how use a camera...
For anyone using the extensions, I recommend starting off with SOLELY the smallest ring, get the technique/lighting/focus figured out and then start stacking 2 or 3 of them together. Putting the 2 largest rings or even all 3 on at the same time is kinda like using a microscope or telescope, it can be difficult to even FIND your subject in the viewfinder, let alone get it focused etc. Once dialed, just add another, then another.
Realize tho that unlike "regular" photography, sharp focus is attained not by using the focus (just turn the damn AF to OFF) but through zooming (on zoom lenses), or by physically moving further/closer to the subject. Its odd at first but it quickly becomes intuitive... but no less challenging.
As noted in an earlier post, depending on the lens you're using, the working distance can be extremely close to the flower. You'll inevitably get resin on the front element of your lens when you bump into nugs as you move fore/back for focus, but it comes right off with iso.
Anyway very cool to see the interest in this inexpensive way to get macro shots... cheers to more macro bud porn in the "fostiest" thread!
King Arthur
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I don't know whether this is the frostiest or the stickiest - TGA Jesus OG:
Cheers,
Mo
Yum yum!! looks amazing!
looks so damn beautiful
