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Originally Posted by Gremlin
I have taken photos for a transport and machine forum for years and only just started to get interested in macro. I borrowed a book from the library and also bought one specific for my camera.
The advice I got regarding macro is to get as close as possible, if there is a slight movement left or right then it will be exaggerated the further away you are, basic trigonometry.
The lady who does my gardening was watching me take the photo of the butterfly and she said I was only an inch away.
The trouble with getting too close is the light can be blocked out by the camera if you are not taking notice, I also only use manual focus.
My main interest is big machinery or vehicles, motorcycles, steam engines, ships, planes or lorries. Although they are not "Today in pictures" the ones below are some I took for the magazine, I used a film camera rather then digital for some of them.
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my dad was big into steam, but his thing was traction engines, all through the seventies & eighties,(he died in 85) as i was growing up, we would be at steam engine rallies, camping over the weekend, the last weekend we had with my dad was masham, steam rally, the "biggest", he used to say, we got back on the monday and he died of a heart attack on the tuesday. i was only 14, and back then i didnt appreciate, how he got to spend his lasft few days doing what he loved, as i am now older and wiser, i do
thanks for the pics, they made me think of him again
1&2 are the film?