Remember when I was telling you about the awesome wide angle lens adapter that I got for my Nikon D3K?  The one that I like to play with like this:

I was being all whiny because  thought the macro part of the lens didn’t work, but I totally figured it out yesterday.  I was recently reading about ways to hack your standard lenses into macro lenses, and it dawned on me that I might have been approaching the macro lens totally wrong.

Shocking, but true.

Turns out all you have to do is hold the lens like an inch away from the subject matter.  This is completely counterintuitive for DSLR users because you just can’t get that close.  I tried a couple of macro lenses at f-11 a couple weeks back, just to see what they do, and they both had a lot more range but they also cost WAY more than fifty bucks.

I feel really comfortable investing in a big girl macro lens down the road now that I can experiment and learn about what kind of photographs I’ll take with it, learn about the limitations and features, find trouble spots, that kind of thing.

I’m busting out my camera again.  Can you tell I’m making progress in the studio?  Big cute progress, like this:

tunes:  the closer you get :: alabama