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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

I had my wife take them last trip with her SLR

> 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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.)

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

you need a decent camera with macro focus.

a tripod helps a ton as well

mobile phone tripods

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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 )

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

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