They say you should first get a long series of
standard lenses to cover all the different focal lengths before throwing yourself in some kind of specialized niche like macro and fish-eye... well, I didn't follow that suggestion! I've been very doubtful about investing a quite big amount of money on a good macro lens before building up a decent all-around photo bag, but for the moment I'm happy with my choice!
I already wrote about my Sigma 105mm, 2.8f Macro lens in another post, so I'm definitely not going trough its technical specifications or ups and downs right now.
While being in the Swedish countryside I rally had so many good subjects for macro pictures that was very tricky to chose!
As usual among my favorite subjects there are flowers
I know there are different
schools about macro photography. Some want to have the whole subject in sharp focus - mainly reworking the frame and combining different pictures of the same subject in post-production - and some accept the very narrow depth of field arising from the proximity to to subject. I don't really define myself as part of one or the other way of thinking, I just think that they're two different techniques, both of them very nice and interesting, and that sometimes one technique fits the subject in a better way
Turning around a bit I found this very photogenic bee
I just love the amount of details you can get out of this macro lens!
Another guest made its appearance in the backyard one day
In the full resolution version of this image (a bit too heavy to be shared here) you can actually see me reflected in its eye!
And you, what do you think about macro photography? Do you follow the mainstream of
standard lenses before getting into a very specific one or you just go for what you like?
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