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I bough myself a macro Tamron lens. The one with the fixed focal length of 180mm. I just have a question. How do you manage to get the entire butterfly in focus also the flower too?
I'm usually filling the frame with the subject, photographing from a close distance and I get just an extremely narrow part of the subject in focus... the rest of it is out of focus. Also i find it almost impossible to make it sharp with the stacking method of different focused photos. Because the insect moves, wind blows and it's a hell to focus because I can't have a live view mode and also if i move the focus ring for just a bit of a millimeter the focused part changes more than I want. Is it normal?
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The closer you get to your motive, the more you have to stop down to get a depth of field which is deep enough to cover the whole subject. This means your shutter times become longer and the possibility of wind induced unsharpness increases in consequence.
If you want full frame close-ups, be sure that there's almost no wind and close your aperture as far as possible (maybe to f/11 or more). In the case of this photo here, I used an aperture of 5,6 - this was enough to have the whole motive in sharpness because of the longer distance. Most important in every case: your sensor has to be parallel to the motive! And wind is the natural enemy of every macro photographer. Even the smalles move of the subject is a huge one if you look through the viewfinder...
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Thank you very much for the advice. All things you said seem logical but I have never thought about the sensor (to be parallel with the subject). That is interesting!
Thanks again.
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Oh my goodness, what a cutie. And such a sharp shot, too! Nicely done.
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