Photography Thailand Forum

[Renato]

I took these shots at the Butterfly Park today with a 28-300mm telezoom lens, handheld it to see how the photos will come out without a tripod and using the available light. Not bad but it can be improved.

[Marc Schultz]

Nice shots.

Lots of people use two lenses at the same time to shoot macro stuff. Normally one lens is reversed using an adapter which allows you to reverse the lens and still mount to the camera. If you search around I am sure you will find tutorials. The reversed lens I think helps to increase magnification and also allows you to get closer to the subject and still be able to focus. There is a nice guy named Mark Plonsky who does a lot of amazing bug shots and other stuff. He is a professor and has a web site. You can take a look and possibly ask him more about lens techniques if you are interested: http://www.mplonsky.com/photo/. There are also some articles on his site about it.

[Renato]

Marc, I understand you have a message for me but there is nothing under this subject when I open it. I wonder what it was.

[Renato]

Marc, got your message now, my PC must be half asleep earlier.  I do have a macro 100mm which I could have used but the butterfly enclosure was rather small and not that many butterflies to shoot around and following them is not that easy before you can even set the camera, with the telezoom you can manage to shoot from a distance. I am just trying to experiment it this way. I will refer to the website you have referred and I am sure I will be learning from it. Thanks.

[Renato]

Thanks stet, I am just practicing these shots with a telezoom lens and hope I can improve it much better later, maybe with a tripod this time. There were quite a few of us chasing butterflies that day but I was the only one who saw the wasp I guess. Some of them were using their flash, maybe I should buy one soon. Never used one before.