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Everything worth shooting Macro has been done. Right?

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FretNoMore said:
You start by dissing macros in general, and people who like to
shoot them. Not the nicest way, or most tactical way, of getting
people to respond favourably to your post. You could have left out
the first two sentences and your post would have had a neutral
meaning without those initial negative opinions. Your subject line
is also as made for creating controversy.

But then you would perhaps have had to suffer a lot of fly and
flower macros... :-)
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Daniella said:
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.
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you can try for something more challenging:

it may not look like it, but this is a fly:



and a dragonfly in flight is surely a chalenge:



another thing to try is to catch behavior shots..



and how about little flies french kissing?



or even more:




Daniella68313 said:
Flowers... While pretty... in macro mode they all look the same.
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well maybe not. It still can make a difference if you catch the
right color and composition, but too often photos of flowers looks
like snapshots..


Daniella68313 said:
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.
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I would quality this as disgusting and scary..but that's me :)
Daniella68313 said:
Has anyone shot something odd in Macro which makes the
image stand out as an interesting Macro shot?
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what is interesting for me has absolutely no interest what so ever
for me. I would not want to see a bladder stone if you paid me to
look at it :)

but here is something I find interesting..a little miracle in
construction..amazing how these insects can build such elatobate
structure:




Daniella68313 said:
Please post.

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Daniella said:
I think pretty women have been one of the major photography subject.

It's even overdone as a subject.
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I still like seeing them ;-)
Daniella68313 said:
Kuivaamo said:
And there are A LOT more pics of girls (every angle, every
lighting, with or without makeup, with or without glittery stuff,
with or without retouching and special effects, with or without
clothes), than flies, for obvious reasons.

Not trying to be demeaning, but being proud of a picture can make
one think less objectively.
Jurgen Larssson said:


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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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Yeah... I always pin my insects first, makes it easier to take the pictures. Can you see any trace of the pin or was my editing good enough?





I do it to birds too, takes bigger pins though... this one got away unfortunately.




 
Eduardo
 
Great shot there Jurgen. Very nice lightning and what a model!!
 
there is a lot more in the world to me than bugs and flowers...

There was a month or two that I played around with showing the world through a water drop. I was not very successful, but I'll show them anyways as a(poorly done) example.







A few more of my photos that I kinda like.







And I'll throw in a fly, just for fun:)



Nothing really unique or exceptional, I know, but I rarely shoot macro/closeups. So I don't have much to choose from here. Hey, at least its not all bugs and flowers.

I'm going to blame any and all faults in the images on my setup. I'm confident that if I had bought a reversing ring my images would have no faults at all;)



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Too bad there is all that glitter in the way. She would look much better without it. Why don't you try again. Oh right, never mind, it has already all been done before.
 
Well, the picture you posted is just like thousands of other payed models that I have seen; really nothing special.
On the other hand, if you really are up to a challenge try field macro.



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Photography is a never ending tug of war in compromises.
 
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.

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I feel really sorry for the birds, it's horrible. But I must admit that it was absolutely hilarious at the same time. I laughed so hard my flatmates were asking if something was wrong with me.
 
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