I got finished with my walk today and decided to practice a new technique that I found on You Tube for focusing when doing macro shots. I used my 36mm tube and my new 70-200mm lens with the 2x extender. I set the camera on my tripod and turned on live view. I then turned off auto focus and then I zoomed in, not with the lens, but with the zoom live view button to 5x or 10x and manually focus the camera. This is the result. Since I was using an extension tube which causes you to lose DoF, I upped the f stop to f/22. I could have gone to f/65, but it was windy and that was going to keep the shutter open for to long.
Of course it is best to view large. To make it easy: http://media.365project.org/1/4395087_afgmptz489_o.jpg
Gorgeous flower. I like to use live view for focusing of stationary objects. With your technique mentioned above it also helps to use shutter release cable
@bardejov -Thank you so much! You are absolutely right! I do use a remote shutter release and forgot to include that! Thank you for reminding me!
@calm - Thank you very much Cathy! I wish I had notices the petals on the right that were closer to the camera or I would have focused on them rather then the stamens and everything would have been in focus!
@skipt07 I have been experimenting lately with extension tubes and find them a little trick to work with, but through perseverance am now getting some reasonable results
@04haze - I have found at times, that it is easier to focus zooming the lens rather then using the focusing ring. Of course that only works when using a zoom lens. I can see that you are getting some great results!
@kerristephens - Thank you Kerri!
@mittens - You are very kind Marylin! Thank you!
@mtpagano - Thank you Michelle!
@bardejov -Thank you so much! You are absolutely right! I do use a remote shutter release and forgot to include that! Thank you for reminding me!
@calm - Thank you very much Cathy! I wish I had notices the petals on the right that were closer to the camera or I would have focused on them rather then the stamens and everything would have been in focus!
@sassik - Thank you Sassik!
@04haze - You are very kind Lee! Thank you!
@joanf - I am grateful Joan for you kind comment and Fav! Thank you!
@danette - You are welcome! Thank you for your kind comment!
@alisonp - Thank you Alison!
@amrita21- Thank you Amrita!