{"id":7262,"date":"2011-04-10T13:28:06","date_gmt":"2011-04-10T20:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=7262"},"modified":"2013-01-02T11:14:20","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T18:14:20","slug":"macro-shooting-with-nikon-d7000-18-200mm-vr-ii-lens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/macro-shooting-with-nikon-d7000-18-200mm-vr-ii-lens\/","title":{"rendered":"Macro shooting with Nikon D7000 18-200mm VR II lens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC_0671trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC_0671trim-800x529.jpg\" alt=\"\u685c\" title=\"sakura white japanese cherry blossoms d7000 nikon 18-200 lens vr d7k macro\" width=\"800\" height=\"529\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC_0671trim-800x529.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC_0671trim-250x165.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC_0671trim.jpg 1631w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s photo wasn&#8217;t taken in Japan. I took it last week on the <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/tag\/southern-oregon-university\/>SOU campus<\/a>. It&#8217;s one of the few cherry trees in Oregon that look like the sakura so common in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have a macro lens for my <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/nikon-d7000-dslr-camera-with-18-200mm-vr-ii-lens-update\/>Nikon D7000<\/a>. The camera with the 18-200mm lens simply won&#8217;t focus on anything closer than half a meter (1.6 feet) from the lens. I thought this would be problematic in taking these kinds of macro shots. That has not been a problem though. Instead of going inches from the target and taking the photo at or near 18mm, I just back up and zoom. This photo was taken hand held with a breeze blowing at 150mm. Not a bad macro, close-up shot for a non-macro lens like this&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s photo wasn&#8217;t taken in Japan. I took it last week on the SOU campus. It&#8217;s one of the few cherry trees in Oregon that look like the sakura so common in Japan. I don&#8217;t have a macro lens for my Nikon D7000. The camera with the 18-200mm lens simply won&#8217;t focus on anything closer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,11],"tags":[93,212,381,382,322,92,328],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7262"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7262"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10546,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7262\/revisions\/10546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}