Photography GCSE.... final project, advice.

[Donki]

Hi guys,

I am doing my final project for my photography GCSE and thinking of doing something with macro. One of the possible projects is called "natural forms", I was thinking of doing this from a macro point of view. Trying to show detail, texture, lighting on a natrual form. Dont know what the form will be yet, was thinking fruit, wood, stone, flora... and the like. My other two project have been landscape and Candid/Documentory shots so thought I would try something different.

so.....

a) Good idea? Boring idea? Mehh?

b) Should I buy a good macro lens (keeping tabs on a Tamron 90mm), or get a set of extension tubes for my 50mm 1.8?

c) Does anyone have a cosina 100mm macro for Canon cant seem to find any for love nor money :bonk:

Thanks for your input, will be greatly appreciated.

 

[Joel Roberts]

Natural forms could be a good project, easy to write about and easy to get photos...
I would personally photograph loads of stone and wood things like that, then say water interested me and go on to shoot water frozen and liquid.. and even steam....

Up to you though.. pretty easy topic I'd say...

Joel

 

[phototuition]

Hi Donki, How about natural forms with regualr patterns, maybe patterns in nature, tree bark, water ripples, rock strata, and then similar subjects on a macro scale, much could be plant based I guess.

Your 50mm could work well with tubes but I think it has no manual aperture ring and therefore you'll neeed expensive tubes with electrical contacts otherwise you'll be shooting at f1.8 which will give you an impossibly small depth of field at macro distances

You will need to remove the tubes to focus at greater distances of course and you'll need to check the exposure on the histogram as the f stops will be inaccurate due to extended lens to film plane distance.

Good luck John www.phototuition.net

 

[Peach]

When I think of 'natural form' a vision of an old lady/man comes to mind!

I love taking photos of my gran and getting sharp detail of her wrinkles! sounds gross but looks good.

just a thought!

 

[Donki]

Hi Donki, How about natural forms with regualr patterns, maybe patterns in nature, tree bark, water ripples, rock strata, and then similar subjects on a macro scale, much could be plant based I guess.

Your 50mm could work well with tubes but I think it has no manual aperture ring and therefore you'll neeed expensive tubes with electrical contacts otherwise you'll be shooting at f1.8 which will give you an impossibly small depth of field at macro distances

You will need to remove the tubes to focus at greater distances of course and you'll need to check the exposure on the histogram as the f stops will be inaccurate due to extended lens to film plane distance.

Good luck John www.phototuition.net

Your idea of close texture work is exactly *** I was thinking. The tubes are what I was wondering about, what about these?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/AF-Extension-...ns_caps_hoods_adaptors_ET?hash=item439de8f5f5

They say they are auto focus compatable,I take it they wont allow me to adjust aperture the normal way? I was nearly buying a Tamron macro lens but I opted for a landscape lens as I have been looking for one for ages.

So youthink that general idea would be a good one?

 

[Donki]

When I think of 'natural form' a vision of an old lady/man comes to mind!

I love taking photos of my gran and getting sharp detail of her wrinkles! sounds gross but looks good.

just a thought!

My last project was Docu/candid images of people so I wan to try something a bit different, thanks for the imput thou.