
I’m liking this Macro workshop. I do my homework in the afternoon and then I have something to post the next morning. Yesterday’s lesson was on a technique called free lensing, which basically means taking the lens off your camera and turning it around and holding onto it while you shoot. You loose all the automatic controls so you just have to find your focus by moving back and forth. Out of about 30 shots this was the only one that turned out. I had stopped by Home Depot since it was on my path yesterday and picked up a couple of new plants to play with including this fresh echinacea since the ones in my garden have about given up the ghost. I used the M3 with it’s 22 mm macro lens but you can do this with any lens to get more magnification…not sure about the zooms. But, it’s all about experimentation. In post I added a high pass filter and a lightroom preset that helped to brighten up the colors.