I’ve tested a lot of macro lenses for Nikon cameras recently, which is lucky timing given the upcoming 50mm and 105mm Z-series macro lenses. We’ll test those two soon enough, but today, let’s compare a half dozen of the most popular macro lenses already on the market.
Photography Life
Red Club, red shoes, red guitar. How lucky can a photographer get?
Leo “Bud” Welch spent a great deal of his life as a lumberjack, and picked up music and instruments along the way. He began recording late in life, and started gigging in clubs and bars, recording a few albums along the way. Wonderful man, wonderful talent.
And….wonderful style. I took my cue from the Rockwood Music Hall on Allen St. in NYC, which has a red motif. Didn’t ask Leo to wear those shoes and that suit! Wish I could take credit for that little piece of genius, but it was all him.
Speedlights on this. No big flash. We ran a pic of Leo over on our Instagram and there were some lighting questions. Basic response here, across the board, is that I try in a situation like this to make the light look like that light that is already there. In the instance below, the backlight on his head and shoulder is a red gelled Speedlight. Small gelled source, a serious distance from the subject. No shaper, just raw light, played faintly.
There was also a question about managing reflections. There’s no magic bullet for reflections, as they vary, but what I do find is that if I deploy broad, smooth sources, like soft boxes, or diffuser panels, the highlights and reflections also tend to be smooth, and not spectral and jarring. Hope that notion helps.
And there were steps leading down into the club, with a big, windowed door. So, with hot shoe flash, I just mimicked and amplified the daylight I saw already streaming into the club from the street and that outer door. 3×6 Lastolite diffuser, and a couple of small flash sources, and I made the main light for Leo.
And, being an irresistible subject, you move closer.
And closer.
My editor at LIFE always talked about doing a story in terms of peeling an onion, or peeling the layers back. That is certainly what you can do with small, mobile light sources. Move. Get close. Change lenses, which immediately changes your perspective. Be nimble. All the new gear allows you to do that. Up to us to use all this new tech in creative ways.
Cameras and lights, new tech. Subject? Classic. Old school. Good day in the field.
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So whether you shoot with a camera or your phone, get ready to let your creativity run wild, because we’ve got more than 80 ideas to help you bottle-up summer in photos this month.
1. Get the list. Download the list so you can have it handy on your phone and computer, print it off so you can check things off as you capture them, and get inspired by all of the summer fun you have in store.
2. Start taking pictures! Find an item on the list and photograph it with the camera you have with you. Whether it be with you DSLR or your phone camera, every shot counts.
3. Share your summer fun with us from July 1 – August 31, 2020. We will be refreshing our Instagram feed often because we cannot wait to see what you capture. Just use the hashtags #ClickinMomsHunt20 and #listitem (e.g., #bubbles or #picnicbasket) on your public Instagram account so that we are sure to see them – or share them with us in the dedicated Photo Hunt picture share inside the Clickin Moms forum. We will be featuring our favorites throughout the month!
4. Become a Clickin Moms member! While you do not have to be a Clickin Moms member to participate, joining the community is a great way to connect with other women who love photography just as much as you do! PLUS, becoming a member gets you access to thousands of tutorials, picture shares, and conversations that will take your photography to the next level! Ready to check it out for yourself? Join us here!
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One of our favorite long-running traditions in the Clickin Moms community is our bimonthly forum contest. We announce a new theme at the beginning of the month and our fabulous members share what they were inspired to capture.
In May and June, the Clickin Moms community worked to create images for the theme “Smile” and they definitely inspired us – it was hard to narrow it down!
Congratulations to Lisa Johnson for her winning shot (above) that has earned her a live Breakout session from Click Photo School!
Read on to the bottom of this post to see how you can enter this month’s contest. But first, please enjoy this collection of some of our very favorites from this past month:
Do you want a chance for your work to be featured on the Clickin Moms blog and to be eligible to win a live seat to a Click Photo School Breakout Session?
And if you’re not yet a member of Clickin Moms, we’d LOVE to have you come join us! As a member, you get access to photography tutorials, video demos, Q&A threads, image critiques, photo challenges and contests like this one, and so much more! Right now, you can come try us out FREE for two weeks. Become a member today!
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Click Community Blog: Helping you take better pictures one day at a time
One of our favorite long-running traditions in the Clickin Moms community is our bimonthly forum contest. We announce a new theme at the beginning of the month and our fabulous members share what they were inspired to capture.
In July and August, the Clickin Moms community shared images that captured the theme “Summertime” and we’ve picked 43 of our favorites that will keep us warm and smiling through the winter.
Congratulations to Ally Quinlan for her winning image (above) that has earned her a live Breakout session from Click Photo School!
Read on to the bottom of this post to see how you can enter this month’s contest. But first, please enjoy this collection of some of our very favorites from this past month:
Do you want a chance for your work to be featured on the Clickin Moms blog and to be eligible to win a live seat to a Click Photo School Breakout Session?
And if you’re not yet a member of Clickin Moms, we’d LOVE to have you come join us! As a member, you get access to photography tutorials, video demos, Q&A threads, image critiques, photo challenges and contests like this one, and so much more! Right now, you can come try us out FREE for two weeks. Become a member today!
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Click Community Blog: Helping you take better pictures one day at a time
