
Originally Posted by
Jason Kinsey
Thanks, Kostas. This was the only bud that I could get to where my house wasn't in the background (they're growing against the house), and I wasn't able to get in with my macro lens like I wanted to without tearing up the rest of the irises. So put an 20mm extension tube on my 80-200 and backed up a little bit to get focused on the bud. Adding the side light let me separate the subject from the bg as well.
I love shooting at the longer focal lengths, and now that I have a good set of extension tubes I imagine I'll be shooting the 80-200 a lot more for macro. Thanks for the kind words.