"If it were not for a digital camera and a computer, I would not be a photographer"
- Riva Berkovitz
Seventy-nine year old Riva Berkovits recently moved to Brookline Massachusetts where she decided to buy a digital camera. Her inspiration for the purchase came from living near Grigg Parks . She felt that its natural beauty could not be captured with paint so she explored photography for the first time. Her first camera did not come with the type of lens she wanted so she purchased a special close up/ macro lens. Berkovits has realized that equipment varies in sophistication as well as complexity and price." At first, Ms. Berkovitz thought she had stumbled onto the ultimate in low-cost close-up photography. Using Adobe Photoshop Elements software, she simply cropped small sections of flower photos taken with her Canon point-and-shoot camera." She was wrong. When her images were looked at on a monitor, they looked relatively good to the untrained eye. After making prints she noticed her pictures lacked sharpness and the noise was exaggerated because of the extreme cropping. The large diameter professional lenses can cost up 800 dollars and that's just too expensive! Macro lenses tend to provide their best results at close range.
I work very close to my subjects and my lens just doesn't cut it. I'm afraid that when I print these large, the noise will be so obvious. Right now I don't have access to a macro lens but I think its important for me to have if i want to move forward with this project. I have had to throw out almost two thirds of my images every time i shoot due to lack of sharpness and I would love to eliminate that problem.
Austen, Ian. "Macro Photography, Microscopic Details."New York Times. Dec 2007. 2 Nov 2008.
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