Yellow in the Uintas

[Ben Egbert]

While walking around our campsite in the High Uintas, looking for birds with my 100-400 and 1.4 X attached, I found this crop of flowers and took a shot. Not the ideal lens combo for this, but I liked it enough to processes and share here.

CC welcome.

 

[AlanLichty]

Nice. I would have expected a wider DoF with this lens combination but it is one of my favorite lenses for closeups - even if I did end up shooting from 6' away

 

[Ben Egbert]

I also use this lens for closeups but Jeffrey tells me only a macro produces true macro and I don’t own one

 

[JimFox]

This is really cool Ben! It looks like that lens combo did awesome. Good job.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Thanks Jim, I think I was zoomed out to 560 for this one and at ISO2000

 

[Douglas Sherman]

Nice balance to this image, Ben. It is very difficult to do this when there are so many flowers. Good job.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Thanks Douglas. I was watching how Jeffrey works and picked up just a bit of technique from that experience.

 

[Jim Dockery]

That lens combo works well here to compress the background and throw it out of focus, even though you might have a large f stop.

 

[Jameel Hyder]

Nice one Ben. There are a couple of ways to achieve macro easily without adding a macro lens to the bag - extension tubes is one. Canon also makes a lens attachment that you screw on like a filter to give macro capabilities (forgetting the model number right now).

 

[Ben Egbert]

That lens combo works well here to compress the background and throw it out of focus, even though you might have a large f stop.

My old 500 f4 was even better at shallow dof. But this lens is plenty sharp.

Nice one Ben. There are a couple of ways to achieve macro easily without adding a macro lens to the bag - extension tubes is one. Canon also makes a lens attachment that you screw on like a filter to give macro capabilities (forgetting the model number right now).

I had some extenders but gave them to me son in law who was batter at macro. I probably need a fast lens of shorter FL even then. Maybe a 50 or 85 f1.4 or at least 1.8. All I have now is a 11-24 f4 and 24-70 f2.8 and of course the 100-400.

I would like to have a 35 f1.4 for night shots and panos. But that does not seem to be a great FL for macro work.

 

[Jeffrey]

That is colorful and fun to view, Ben. I must have been taking an afternoon nap when you were wandering about. Your lens is really fine for this type of image. A macro lens allows you to get very very close, and in most cases not necessary. However the perspective of the image (the relative spacing between elements in the scene) will be different with the macro only because you will be closer to your subject. Not better or more right, just different and a choice one has to make.

 

[Ben Egbert]

That is colorful and fun to view, Ben. I must have been taking an afternoon nap when you were wandering about. Your lens is really fine for this type of image. A macro lens allows you to get very very close, and in most cases not necessary. However the perspective of the image (the relative spacing between elements in the scene) will be different with the macro only because you will be closer to your subject. Not better or more right, just different and a choice one has to make.

Thanks Jeffrey, I would not have taken this had I not watched your method.