Tulip Time
 
Yes even the most seasoned of us forget about the dratted tulip. I am talking of course about the camera symbol for close up micro lens shots. Close microphotography can net great simple images packed with color. But the jargon can frighten away the most blase shutterbug.
The tulip symbol indicates close up subject matter photography. But when is the right to use it? When will results be not best for close focus work? Using close up micros focus lensing means being very sure your subject matter is already lit and composed brilliantly. Cropping edits of close up shots makes it looks like a scissored up frame.
You will have noticed by now on your digital camera that some pictures just don’t “close in” well. I happen to use the zoom lens myself when I know I want an approximation of a shot, and the full density of resolution won’t possibly be present in any crop I do. But sometimes for websites or blurbs I need a postage stamp sized image with impact.
But the detail provided by my outstanding (aren’t you sick of my bragging) tweleve mega pixel Kodak is more to my taste in the regular setting than the extraction digitally “closened up” and chopped and delivered by the zoom function using the digital lens setting. If you are used to crisp detail you will observe the dulling immediately.
Well call me a microstock criminal and have me stand in the little Microstocker’s corner, but I have been known to inscribe in the detail like a pointillist occasionally to make an image fly. Labor intensive/ Sure. But when the right picture is only 50 or so mouse clicks away, what’s a sore wrist? Who needs working lower arm tendoms usable?
Seriously, using these lenses is really a function of your best results. If the shutter delay to the shot costs you it, then no tulip is worth tis weight in …buds? but if you can rely on micro offerings from time to time, getting the surface caliber texture of the rose petal or daisy leaf can be worth it. Just be sure you have subject worthy of the effort.
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