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Wednesday, November 19, 2025
By Mike Moats Photography
For most of my years shooting macro and close-up photography I have mainly used my Tamron 90mm lens.
A few years ago, I started using the new zoom lenses from Tamron, the 18-270, 16-300, 18-400, and the 18-300 on my mirrorless camera.
The other change in the last couple years are the larger megapixels on my latest cameras. At 26 megapixels I can do some small crops and still get a good quality image.
My new way of shooting is I don't have to worry about perfectly framing my subject and then just crop out the subject in post processing.
As you can see in this image, I just framed a large area with my zoom lens and crop in post.
When I get home, I download the image and just crop out what I want. Add an artistic filter for the background in Smart Photo Editor and done.
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