I like macro photography, and so far I have had to make do without a macro lens. resorting to dioptre lenses, reversing one lens onto the front of another, or more recently using a 2x converter with the glass removed. One day I will get a proper macro, I hope, a Pentax 100mm macro lens, weather resistant too.
This shell was taken using my Pentax 35-70 macro zoom on a macro converter lens (like a 2x converter except you spiral it in and out).
However when doing macros the depth of field is inevitably very shallow, but I found a program that can get around that (to some degree)
CombineZP
You take a series of photos and change the depth of focus slightly on each one ( a tripod is handy). Open CombineZP and load the photos into it. It will then stack the photos and work its magic to give you a photos with a much larger depth of field 🙂
and its a free program too
The image was turned to black and white in GIMP (free too) using channel mixer
Black and white weekend
Very nice shot. I love macros (though my camera is very basic) and depth of field always bothers me. I use Paint.NET for most things (another freebee) but I like the sound of CombineZP – must look into it.
Beautiful textures on that sea shell with a great lighting. Very nice