Ever wonder how to get those nice close ups without having a macro lens or feature on your camera?
What I do is set the camera to shoot RAW files, or large JPEG to allow large area for cropping in. Before shooting make sure you take the time to focus on the plant to get it nice and sharp. It's very important and will make your close up very sharp.
Auto focus works great, however it can miss once awhile so if you have a manual focus use it. Best way to get all or most of your plants focused is shoot at f-stop 8 or 11.
Once you have the shots in, open up Photoshop or imaging editing software of your choice. Open the file at full size and zoom in 100%.
Once you zoomed in 100% look around the image for a nice spot to crop into. It will look like you had a macro feature/lens on. After seeing what you like it is time to crop in. Remember never to crop beyond the 100% or the new image will be blurry since the pixel are lost from image enlargement.
Use your crop tool and set the image size before cropping (if you can) to portrait (vertical) or landscape (horizontal) view. I find that best size for vertical is 600x900 pixel, and horizontal at 900x600 pixel it will fit the forum post very well.
The final image is this.
That's how I do it. My camera can't shoot macro so I use Photoshop to zoom, and crop in on a section of the plant that exhibit details (trichs and fat calyx).
What I do is set the camera to shoot RAW files, or large JPEG to allow large area for cropping in. Before shooting make sure you take the time to focus on the plant to get it nice and sharp. It's very important and will make your close up very sharp.
Auto focus works great, however it can miss once awhile so if you have a manual focus use it. Best way to get all or most of your plants focused is shoot at f-stop 8 or 11.
Once you have the shots in, open up Photoshop or imaging editing software of your choice. Open the file at full size and zoom in 100%.
Once you zoomed in 100% look around the image for a nice spot to crop into. It will look like you had a macro feature/lens on. After seeing what you like it is time to crop in. Remember never to crop beyond the 100% or the new image will be blurry since the pixel are lost from image enlargement.
Use your crop tool and set the image size before cropping (if you can) to portrait (vertical) or landscape (horizontal) view. I find that best size for vertical is 600x900 pixel, and horizontal at 900x600 pixel it will fit the forum post very well.
The final image is this.
That's how I do it. My camera can't shoot macro so I use Photoshop to zoom, and crop in on a section of the plant that exhibit details (trichs and fat calyx).
