Back to Macro

Macro is still one of my favourite types of photography. I'm making do with my Sigma 70-300mm lens, which does macro in the 200mm-300mm range, and is limited to manual focus. It's been good to force myself to experiment in manual mode, as it's also forced me to try and understand depth of field, and how it's related to both aperture and focal length.

 

My one big complaint, however, is that it's made it extraordinarily difficult to capture macro pictures of moving subjects. Macro photography in the 200mm-300mm range has such a narrow depth of field, that even a slowly moving subject can quickly move out of focus. And without any kind of visual assistance for focus, like an old fashioned SLR would have, maintaining focus on a moving subject has been near impossible.

Thankfully, this pine cone wasn't moving, and the mossy ground cover was unaffected by wind.

f5.3

1/60

240mm