Anyone have tips on taking photos of buds?

Judo · Post by **Judo** » Mon 24th Aug 2009 11:28 pm

Close ups I take with my 5mpixel phone of buds always end up blurred.. how have you guys come up with such great pics in your travelogues?

Thanks

geoffk · Post by **geoffk** » Mon 24th Aug 2009 11:29 pm

I had my wife take them last trip with her SLR

kel · Post by **kel** » Tue 25th Aug 2009 01:34 am

> how have you guys come up with such great pics in your travelogues?

I'm sure most of those pics are taken with a digital camera using it's "macro" mode (i.e. not with a phone). For example, my camera can focus on things that literally touch the lens if I was so careless with it's optics, and I intend to make full use of that on my upcoming trip

Boner · Post by **Boner** » Tue 25th Aug 2009 01:44 am

Macro, sunlight (NO flash) and a steady hand or a tripod.

geoffk · Post by **geoffk** » Tue 25th Aug 2009 03:30 am

Boner wrote:Macro, sunlight (NO flash) and a steady hand or a tripod.

Check. I found a 'food' setting on my new camera. Although I had the resolution set to high to post.

naismith · Post by **naismith** » Tue 25th Aug 2009 06:00 am

My Cannon Power Shot S2 has a super macro that's better than the macro for buds and using the flash indoors works for me.

By the way,I have to brag on Mellow Yellow, on a trip early this year I left my Cannon at the shop and two months or so later I return and to my surprise I got it back. How many shops would that have happen???

naismith

Puffin13 · Post by **Puffin13** » Tue 25th Aug 2009 06:06 am

geoffk wrote:Check. I found a 'food' setting on my new camera. Although I had the resolution set to high to post.

The bud is ingestible, so the food setting sounds reasonable.

mark the martian · Post by **mark the martian** » Tue 25th Aug 2009 09:29 am

Just get a little bit further away from it and use the zoom. Especially if you're using the flash (get really far away!). You can take good phone shots

geekymonkey · Post by **geekymonkey** » Tue 25th Aug 2009 10:10 am

I use an SLR, but I find that a steady hand, Macro setting, and natural light do wonders. Also, if you want to increase the sense of dimensionality to your image, make sure the light is hitting the bud from a different angle than you are shooting from. You do not want the light to be coming directly from behind or in front of you. (That's why flash photos frequently look so flat.)

Judo · Post by **Judo** » Tue 25th Aug 2009 01:51 pm

OK ill give this a try.. unfortunately the zoom on my phone is software mode

cheese · Post by **cheese** » Tue 25th Aug 2009 04:28 pm

you need a decent camera with macro focus.

a tripod helps a ton as well

Bob2 · Post by **Bob2** » Tue 25th Aug 2009 05:36 pm

mobile phone tripods

http://shop.ebay.co.uk/?_from=R40&_trks ... Categories

Twichaldinho · Post by **Twichaldinho** » Tue 25th Aug 2009 05:45 pm

Boner wrote:Macro, sunlight (NO flash) and a steady hand or a tripod.

Thats my technique...steady-ish hand, rather than a tripod ( I would feel like a right walter mitty getting a tri-pod out in a coffeeshop

)

Boner · Post by **Boner** » Tue 25th Aug 2009 05:51 pm

Twichaldinho wrote:
Boner wrote:Macro, sunlight (NO flash) and a steady hand or a tripod.
Thats my technique...steady-ish hand, rather than a tripod ( I would feel like a right walter mitty getting a tri-pod out in a coffeeshop )

Mines a bit like this one: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASI ... uk57536-21

puffpuffgive · Post by **puffpuffgive** » Tue 25th Aug 2009 06:06 pm

Macro, sunlight (NO flash) and a steady hand or a tripod.

As above. I got one of these for £100 or so. If there's no sunlight, try putting the bud on a piece of white paper (or in a white ashtray, artful

)

By the way,I have to brag on Mellow Yellow, on a trip early this year I left my Cannon at the shop and two months or so later I return and to my surprise I got it back. How many shops would that have happen???

this is awesome