Tom Medley » Photography

Macro on the Cheap

Tom — Fri, 28 May 2010 14:18:47 +0000

Macro Lenses are expensive, prohibitively so for me. I bought an Opteka Macro Lens from Amazon, which is a tenth of the price, and just screws onto the end of the standard kit lens, with excellent results. The depth of field is tiny, but with a bit of tweaking you can get excellent results. An album of my first try with it is on my Picasa.

Bokeh Fun

Tom — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:54:05 +0000

Homemade bokeh filter

I made a homemade bokeh filter for my camera. As it’s just using the kit lens, the size of the design is very small, and this limits you to taking photos at full zoom, and you can’t get all the nice effects you get with a proper filter and a lens with a really large aperture, but it’s still pretty good fun! See all the photos on my Picasa page.

New Camera – Canon EOS 500D

Tom — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:59:43 +0000

The river Cam, seen from Queens' grove.

Having a lot of fun playing around with it, you can see a few of my first attempts on Picasa Web Albums.