ccallana
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Re: [Help] focusing/settings
Stay where you are at, close the aperture down. If you are handholding, watch your shutter speed. I shoot a lot of flower macros at f/22 which pretty much requires a tripod unless you have a ton of light. In your shot above looks like you have plenty of shutter speed to deal with (1/800th) you could get that down several stops before worrying about it hand held.
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clubs: | I need to put the camera to aperture priority to do all that, I'm almost positive I can't change anything in macro mode on the canon xt. Thanks for the advice. |
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clubs:  | Then don't use macro mode, use manual mode, or Av (aperture priority). |
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Cariad
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clubs: | I thought everyone used macro mode when taking flowers. |
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ccallana
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said by Cariad  :I need to put the camera to aperture priority to do all that, I'm almost positive I can't change anything in macro mode on the canon xt. Thanks for the advice. That is probably correct - for the most part I would stay away from the pre-programmed scene modes. Use them to see what choices the camera would make, and then move back to modes with more control for tweaking.
Av is probably your friend here - use it when you want control over the DOF. Camera will chose a good shutter speed.
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said by Cariad :I thought everyone used macro mode when taking flowers. We use a macro lens but not macro mode:).
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1 edit | ahhhh, I didn't know that.
I was using a canon 28-90mm lens |
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