After the recent talk about macro photography and the advantages of benbos and
unilocs etc, I got inspired to go out and take some pictures of all the
wildflowers that are out at the moment. Though I only have a lightweight Slik
compact tripod, I found by far my major limitation was not positioning the
camera or keeping it still, but keeping the subject still. Flowers and leaves
sway in the breeze, and critters run away faster than I can pan the camera. Does
anyone have any clever tricks that they use to get around this problem? Beyond
not eating beans for a few days, how does one deal with wind?
OM content: of course I was using my OM 1, 50/1.8 (with homemade cardboard
extension tube and rubber-band aperture stop down!), 500/8 for those things up
in the trees as well as tokina 100-300 with off-brand 2x tele for 1:1 from a
distance. The wide range of colours from greens to blues to purples to reds to
yellow should give me a good test of my first roll of E100VS too.
Dylan
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