ah right, sorry Ken readed your comment just a bit too fast

Well looks like macro isn't mostly a right brained thing since Terry has some good macros aswell I see, ah well it was fun

Well if it was a "special" silver lens you could say it makes her look thinner but since you don't have that one I really don't know, I have the same problem more or less but diffrently

now you all see how long I'm already on this forum stalking all of you
who was actually the one with the special silver lens were he was able to get all the ladies at the party to pose for him, because he told them they will like thinner with this lens?

Lovely story Amin, that's how all great things are made right?

Don't worry about the length, they are a nice read so please go on
btw Dan's pats is just as big as mine part

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oh wow 30 years ago I'm sorry I didn't knew you're a veteran, you will surely have more experience then me, I just started next year

That's good to hear Amin and they gave you some great advice too.

The DOF will be a lot more exceptable with just the 50mm reveresed on your cam as you can see with the photos so the light is less of a problem because the aperture will be bigger.
Just one little tip, watchout while moving in closer to your subject, you need to get pretty close for some good shots and the rear element is then quite exposed. It's certainly a lot of fun though so good luck and let us see some results, I'm quite curious how the stacking will work with your lenses

and too add on the rest, if you use an higer iso you can drop the outputt of your flash so it can flash 3 or 4 times continously.

It might be a fun idea to use the flash at trailing curtain mode so that you get those speed lines like this link

Good luck shooting

Hi Johna,
here you can compare the difference of the noise controll levels very good link

I myself would leave it off since I procress all my photos on my computer and they are better removing the noise.
Basicly depending on the time you want to spend on postprocessing and how many of the photos you decide what's best for you.

For the rest of the settings, I just went through the manuall with the camera in my hands and simply tried everything what I thought I might fancy.

No Ken you're wrong, look at this link

yes you have disproven the macro thing Prieni, but still you are a minority so we just move you in the box of exception so that the theory still counts

How/what do you think about when composing a photo and if you look at your photos do you have many that looks the same regarding technique and the way the compisition is and such?

No thanks I also finds this very interesting
I'm glad you've some experince in this I only tried the 40ltd on the 100mm macro once. you really need some light because the DOF gets so shallow so you are using some high f-numbers to compisate.

Have you tried the 50 on your 80-320 once, that way you can give him some certainty since the 80-320 has a larger diameter.

The 50 on the 55-300 will give you an magnification of 1,1x (on 55mm) to 6x (on 300mm) and the rings that you need for that are called couple rings not reverse rings Matt
You can also just reverse mount the 50 onto your camera instead of the lens, therefor you do need a reverse ring.

To be honest I don't know what's gives you the best result but with stacking (putting your lens onto another lens) you can have the problem that you 50mm on the 55-300mm will give you some vignetting, certainly if you use the zoom on the wide end. The good thing is that you still have all controll over your lens since the zoom will be mounted normally but if you just reverse the 50 on your body you're atleast sure it will give you good quality without vignetting but as all the contacts on controll of the lens wont be on the camera you need to do everything manually. That's surely not a big deal but still something that you must know before going into this world.

theses photos are done by reversing a 50mm onto the body, just to give you an idea link
I know it's a Nikon and I'm sure you can find Pentaxians using this technique but I know this guy so I'm certain he use reversing to make those photos.

I'm going to say thing Matt has said.

50/1.4 would be the one to get for you if you aren't going serious into portrait and studio this lens will be sumblime and it would justify the extra cost of the 55/1.4. If the 55/1.4 will be available for under the £400 I'll probale order it from SRS the end of the week when it comes out hopefully and just hoping that the bokeh is out of this world.
If you're still in doubt simply wait this week and some lens reviews will be up for the 55/1.4 for sure.

100/2.8 macro is a very fine lens and one of my most used one.
Great for portrait as well although it's too sharp but you can luckely you can simply soften the photos digitally now.
If you want to get serious into macro this is the one to get I believe, you can also look at third party lenses. The Sigma 105 and Tamron 90 (I believe) they are also great.

Hopefully you can make a discison or else a flash can also be nice if you want to spend your money