They say when you try something new in photography you only get good at it by making 10,000 mistakes first. Here is my mistake # 1. I’ve never tried to set anything up in a pseduo-studio setting before so I “built” a mini studio setup and mounted a suitable background on a wall, purchased a flower from the local supermarket on the way home from work and tried to take my first flower macro shot. I bought a Canon 500D 77mm closeup diopter filter that screws to the front of my Nikon 70-200mm F2.8 AFS-VRG lens and effectively turns it into a cheap macro alternative lens setup and that’s what I used on this one.
As the weather gets colder and my photography yearnings tend to be for indoor projects, I’m going to try and improve my mini-studio setup and purchase a softbox and some other goodies and try to get this looking a little better with each shot.
