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Flies all look the same to me... I can't for the life of me understand why people would chose to shoot another fly.

Flowers... While pretty... in macro mode they all look the same.

A year ago I saw someone having shot a bladder stone which he had passed. Stacking many images to obtain DOF on the jagged stone.
That was creative and scary.

Has anyone shot something odd in Macro which makes the
image stand out as an interesting Macro shot?

Please post.

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I agree about the flies, but some people really love it.

As for me, I prefer shooting produce...



 
I took this shot to post onto a thread about rust.



and this one of my cat



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...that hasn't been done, and done better, several times already?

My thinking is that "it may have been done before, but so what, it hasn't been done by me". I'm doing photography for my own pleasure.
 
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FretNoMore said:
...that hasn't been done, and done better, several times already?

My thinking is that "it may have been done before, but so what, it
hasn't been done by me". I'm doing photography for my own pleasure.
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second. i really just enjoy taking my camera around and taking pictures of things, even if the resulting jpg files sit in a folder labelled "04-12-2006" waiting for a post-processing which never comes because i'm distracted by half life 2 at the moment.

but of course, you can try to capture an aspect of the flies which hasn't been captured before.

or photograph something that tells a story of what happens in your day-to-day life...



sure, this is just another insect macro, i suppose. but this is a wasp which built its nest in my back deck, like literally days after i moved in myself. after a couple bottles of raid and several days scared out of my mind (i'm scared of flying insects with biters/stingers... like girlie scared!) i finally got rid of them all. so i took a photograph of the fallen with my sigma 70-300 APO (with 1:2 macro mode)...sort of as a sign of my victory. this is the price they paid for invading my home turf! the picture might not mean a lot to others, but hey i look at it and get a chuckle.
 
That's a very nice image, congrats!

Model shots isn't my thing but a quick search at some suitable sites should yield several simlar images. I remember seing something like your picture in some ad as well. I tried onemodelplace.com and here's the first I found, not quite the same but similar idea:
http://www.onemodelplace.com/member.cfm/P_ID/67815

Please note this is not a criticism of your work, it's really good, just a reaction to your comment that all macro shots look the same. To me all model shots look the same, I can't imagine why anyone would want to take more of those. ;-)
 
Someone will always push the envelope... and they'll become famous if they do it well enough. It's a pretty defeatist attitude to throw macro out the window because you feel the status quo is stuck. Quite frankly, I don't mind if i see countless fly after fly picture (even though I've never taken a picture of a fly myself) because they're not the same. Little things can inspire you and make known something new that you can run with. Furthermore, I find inspiration from the people who can just have fun and get pleasure from shooting flies all day. Sure it may all be the same to you now, but something, somewhere, will change just once and the world may jump on that bandwagon... then they'll be having this exact conversation 30 years from now thinking that we have it easy because there were so many possibilities "back then."
 
Gary Jean said:
their own internal organs yet.

Some folks on here should be able to get large bowel macros without
too much of a stretch.

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http://garyjean.zenfolio.com/
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There was a guy who posted images from his own colonoscopy some time ago, can't remember which site. Very few ideas are truly original. Granted, he didn't talke the pictures himself, so there's a unique angle if someone is up for it. :-)
 
That's like photographing women. i can't for the life of me understand why people would chose to shoot another girl. (well, after shooting a fly, you only can kiss a fly, that's right.)

Tim
Jurgen Larssson said:
Flies all look the same to me... I can't for the life of me
understand why people would chose to shoot another fly.

Flowers... While pretty... in macro mode they all look the same.

A year ago I saw someone having shot a bladder stone which he had
passed. Stacking many images to obtain DOF on the jagged stone.
That was creative and scary.

Has anyone shot something odd in Macro which makes the
image stand out as an interesting Macro shot?

Please post.

F
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