Macro ...again !!

I've been playing with Macro on the camera ( decided it was time I really got to grips with it )
BUT the 'front' of what I'm photographing is blurred ..am I too close ??
for the really close up stuff do you take it from a distance and enlarge it later ?
and what lenses are you using ?
This is for the 350d ..I seem to get better results with my P & S for Macro so I must be doing something wrong

Yes I have often wondered this too Murphy - I can never get good results with Macro either and it ends up blurred most of the time

All of my macros are taken with the Canon 350d ...what lens are you using?

Yup, if the bit you want to focus on is blurred and the stuff in the back is in focus you are too close.

Best thing to do is have a play around, and figure out what distances are best

Mel
I'm using the 18-55 lens that came with the camera,I also have a 70-300
It just doesn't have the clarity

I use the 18-55 lens and it produces fab Macro's

What I do is put it onto autofocus and sway backwards and forwards very slightly as I take a series of shots (but this is because my eyes are pants...very bad eyes)

Just get a plant or a flower in view and press the button halfway and you can see what it is focussing on ... you will need to be about 20 mm away but use your eyes through the viewfinder to gauge .....and practise



This was taken with the 350 ...didn;t quite get it right ..if you look at the legs

Also, if you take pics that are really large, you can zoom in and crop the piccy but keep an eye on the definition

HTH

20mm away from that !!! ..is that the whole pic or cropped at all ??
Right ..I'll take some tomorrow after work and see how they are ....thanks

That pic is zoomed in and then cropped

That's actually very good for the kit lens.....but it's not true macro unless it's 1:2 or better!

As we are mostly very new amateurs then I think 1:2 means ****** all to us

So I went to Wikipedia to look the term up:

In recent years, the term macro has come to mean being able to focus on a subject close enough so that when a standard 102×152 mm (4×6 inch) print is made, the image is life-size or larger.

The spider in the picture was a very small one ...