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Originally Posted by JDArt
1. What are your best tips for starting out in macro photography?
2. Who are your favorite macro photographers?
3. What drew you/draws you to macro over other types of photography?
4. Can someone be a good macro photographer with less expensive equipment?
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Start with the easy questions
1. Practice a lot.
2. No particular ones but I tend like macro-shooters with a different style to my own.
3. I've always had a fascination for small bugs- I'm a PhD Microbiologist
- also links with my interest in gardening and what's going on. I suspect the main thing though is the strangeness/ beauty you can find in your own garden. In some ways it's an easy way to get WOW factor shots.
4. Yes you can do very good macros with a P&S camera especially with some of the close-up adapters available. You also do not necessarily need an expensive macro lens with a DSLR. I spent a month shooting with an old pentax 50mm lens on a set of pentax fit ext tubes cobbled to a canon fit modded Tmount and got the best macro shots I'd achieved upto that point- took me a while to realise it was because I was shooting at 1.5:1.
You can also use other fairly cheap methods with a DSLR. see
Flickr: Macro Viewers
Brian V.