Macro Photography - Fruit and Veg

Pintrest Research (Inspiration)

DPS Hints and Tips

"You need to be close enough to your subject to be able to focus with macro filters. The only thing macro filters do is to allow you to focus closer. what type of filter are trying to use (+1? +3? Etc.)? I found that the +1 is useless"

"I have found (and read) is that you must manual focus"

"What I found was that you will have to be very close to focus at all, and like using a true macro lens, you will have very little focal distance. Use a tripod and manual focus. If the camera won't focus at all, then you are probably too far away, or possible too close. You may only have a few millimeters of focal length to work with"

Photographs:

It was useful to understand that the depth of field was very shallow and so I could only focus on parts of the frame rather than the whole frame.

ISO worked best at 100 due to the intense light source and the more light the better. I used a light box and three additional lights - all domestic. I didn't use flash as I only have the crab flash attached to my camera and it would be too far away.

I couldn't get too close to the subject but I had to be close enough. A few centimetres was about right.

f/s worked best at 10-16 but I often had to use 8 for camera shake as my tripod isn't very steady/good and I don't have a remote trigger.