Tamron 90mm Macro

It is dark, rainy, and nothing good indoors to photograph today, but I just love my new Tamron 90mm Macro. So what to do...? Take photos of stupid stuff, of course! Well, at least its more colorful than most of the things I have to photograph at the moment.

The left portion of the image is a full size crop next to the smaller rendering of the icons. I like how you can even see the ripples in the plastic of the LCD screen. That was rather unexpected.
These are on a 24" wide screen LCD so the left portion of the image is less than 0.5cm in height. The right side is pretty much the full height of the original image shrunk to fit the space.

The lens ended up being at a slight angle so not much of the image is fully in focus. Anyway, I'll try to get in the garden this weekend and get some of your typical macro flower shots. Looks like there might be some real interesting bits from what I caught earlier, but without a tripod at the time, they are blurry. I guess macro without a tripod is pretty much a waste -- at least with my hands.

Interesting shots

You say its a waste doing macro without a tripod. I shoot 80% of my macro shots handheld and only occasionally will i hook it up too my monopod.
I find using a tripod outdoors just too cumbersome

It all comes down to getting enough light on the subject with a fast enough shutter speed to avoid camera shake. Thats why i use a flash almost exclusively. I won't go outside without my ringflash or dual head flash no matter what the lighting conditions are like.

I look forward to your flower shots, good luck