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Thanks to an awesome post at Pro Photo Life, I learned a really cool and interesting technique to do Extreme Macro Photography (you gotta watch the video on that post). In short, if you have a telephoto or zoom lens and a shorter prime lens, you can place them face to face (zoom/telephoto mounted) and get really close-up. You have to focus by moving the camera towards or away from the object, but it’s possible to do macro photography in this manner. It’s very difficult to get used to and it’s hard to keep the camera steady, but the results are amazing. Also, you have a very narrow depth of field (millimeters deep).
In my case, only the center of the image is often in focus because of the curvature of my prime lens (50mm). And since my prime lens is significantly smaller than my zoom (the prime is a 52mm ring while the zoom is a 67mm ring), I get some really severe vignetting around the edge. But I’m having a lot of fun with the technique. One day, I’ll get a real macro lens…but for now, I just saved myself a couple of thousand dollars.
Here’s one of my first trials (I have more coming).
