Tip for doing "macro" style slots with an analogue camera and (I assume) no proper macro lens: use a wide aperture (that is, a low f number) and a short exposure time. I'm thinking of the thistle and the tomatoes here, for example. They'd look better if the interesting bit, the flower or the red fruit, were really really sharp, with the background actually blurry so that it looks intentional, rather than having the whole frame sort of in focus but sort of not.
I'm telling you this mainly because the thing I really miss about having a film camera is that I could directly mess around with the aperture and shutter speed and get interesting effects.
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Date: 2011-10-22 05:54 pm (UTC)Tip for doing "macro" style slots with an analogue camera and (I assume) no proper macro lens: use a wide aperture (that is, a low f number) and a short exposure time. I'm thinking of the thistle and the tomatoes here, for example. They'd look better if the interesting bit, the flower or the red fruit, were really really sharp, with the background actually blurry so that it looks intentional, rather than having the whole frame sort of in focus but sort of not.
I'm telling you this mainly because the thing I really miss about having a film camera is that I could directly mess around with the aperture and shutter speed and get interesting effects.