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Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM - reverse mounted at f/8.0
Thanks to Bruno Bouchard for the tip with the reverse lens macro.
Spider in Web. Taken using the reverse lens macro technique.
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I put a 49mm reversing lens adapter on my Pentax K1 and screwed the front of a Pentax Super-Multi-Coated Takumar 20mm f/4.5 to it and took this photo through the front of the lens. It's quite an interesting thing to do.
I put a 49mm reversing lens adapter on my Pentax K1 and screwed the front of a Pentax SMC Takumar 50mm f/1.4 to it and took this photo through the front of the lens. It's quite an interesting thing to do.
SMC Takumar 50mm f/1.4. The lens in this image was attached to the camera with an adapter that lets you shoot through the lens from the front and out the back element. It makes a super macro lens.
Well, I promised a macro of the Toad Lily and here it is. I love the strange middle bits, and their juicy looking protrusions. I am assuming the anthers are the little spaceships suspended on stems, and the pistils are the long curved ones which fork at the end.
Several people have asked if those are water drops on the Lily. No, those are not waterdrops. Those are little protrusions the Lily makes on its petals. I don't know what the purpose of the protrusions is. But, they are definitely not waterdrops.
Below I have included a shot of the other plant's flowers, which are more purple and white, instead of red and white. It is done a bit painterly, just for fun.
Found this little fella a couple of weeks ago on our terrace - by now it is a beautiful butterfly, for sure.
Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM - reverse mounted at f/8.0
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Nikon D3400, Nikkor 18-55mm AF-P kit lens. The lens was held against the camera body. f22 ISO 3200 1/160
reverse lens macro, hand held
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I forgot to check the theme for the group Macro Monday until Monday afternoon, which gave me only a couple of hours to figure out what I would do.
After searching the place for tiny spirals (I already have a snail shell on my stream, so I didn't want to go there), I discovered my son building something which uses these teensy coils.... it heats up to red hot in the device.
So he let me have one for a while, and I just barely made it into Macro Monday.
I liked it because it is a spiral which is coiled up into a spiral.
I used Reverse Lens Macro to do this.
So HMM everyone!
thumb tacks - Nikon D3400, Nikkor 18-55mm AF-P kit lens. The lens was held against the camera body. f22 ISO 3200 1/125
A wild strawberry isn't as tiny as the flowers on grass, but I was still able to photograph one with the reverse lens macro, and used focus-stacking.
I suppose this wild strawberry was about a centimeter in diameter.
Well, it turns out that having my husband renew his interest in photography is having some interesting immediate benefits to my own photography (besides the companionship, I mean). He saw me struggling to set up my jerry-rigged reverse-lens macro lenses the other day, and a couple of days later I suddenly received, in the mail, the perfect rings to attach my lenses to each other backwards...and one to attach my kit lens to my Canon Rebel backwards.
While experimenting with the new, now easily achieved setup (thank you, sweetie!) I discovered that I now have even greater magnification than I had before.
Here are the petals of a Fleabane Daisy... a wildflower whose petals are about 4 mm long. At my most enlarged magnification, I could only capture the tips of those tiny petals.
Here's one of the images I got.
reverse lens macro, handheld, no rings, no extenders, natural light (sun-setting back light), no digital stacking; crop, contrast adjustment and sharpening in ps
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So, the Macro Monday theme was "Imperfection". They mentioned how often a macro photograph shows some imperfection once you get it on your large computer screen. And they wanted us to show that on purpose. An imperfection which mars an otherwise perfect scene.
Well, this was difficult for me, because I always remove the imperfections, or go take the photo all over again if something icky shows up when I look at it large.
So, first I tried actually adding something wrong to the things I was photographing, but that felt even more weird. So I bought a bouquet of Baby's Breath, and started taking macros of the tiny flowers. After doing a lot of focus stacking and then studying the resulting images, I finally found a good shot with an imperfection. A little hair, or fuzzy, which I normally would have removed. And the imperfection was even in focus!
This was done with reverse lens macro. And focus stacking, both with Helicon focus, and manual stacking. The tiny hair was just... there. So I left it there.
It is that time of year again. The grasses are flowering like mad... the people with hayfever are suffering, and I am trying to get photos of the teensy tinesy flowers.
I took a LOT of photos of grass flowers this week, and didn't like any of them.
But today's efforts did yield an ok shot. Of course, then I played with the processing of it... but I am including the original below in comments, if you wish to see it.
I don't know the name of the grass type. I do know that a few days ago, this grass head was so covered with flowers, you couldn't even see the green part. But then an enormously heavy rain fell, and all the flowers were knocked off. These flowers are just the ones which grew after the rain!
To get this shot, I attached a 50mm lens, backwards, to the front of my 18-55mm lens. I set my 18-55mm lens on the narrowest aperture it has (f22) and zoomed in as far as I could. Then I stacked three layers of focus together. It turned out passable... still not what I hoped for though!
These little dangling flowers move if you breathe. They vibrate if a truck goes by... they dance for long minutes if there is a train in the distance. If someone is playing their music with the bass too loud, they shake. So it is tricky....
Oh... and (sorry this is so long)... the red bit in the bottom corner was an anomaly of the light and the lens arrangement. But it looked so cool... like a rose... that I left it there just to show it.
Although I was supposed to be cleaning the house, for the upcoming visit from my son and his girl, I spent a good part of the day playing with macros.
I waver between loving landscapes and macros, with lots of in-between sorts of images thrown in there.
I hadn't had a good macro session for a long time, and so I played today.
This is the outer edge of the seedpod of a Chinese Chestnut tree. These things are so sharp you cannot pick them up with your bare hands. I snagged this one with a piece of tissue, using the tissue like a bag, as the sharp points go right through a tissue.
This macro was interesting to me because I used reverse lens macro, to get really close up, and because I attached another lens (backwards) to the end of my regular lens, I was able to keep a really deep depth of field.
After I took one shot, I decided I couldn't see enough of the object, so I got weird and made a reverse-lens-macro-panorama. This is the result.
I was thinking of starting a group called "Macro Mysteries... what IS that thing?" where everyone would have to guess what the object was on the two photos before their entry. Just for fun. Any opinions on that?
Ok, so this is hilarious. I totally thought until about 10 minutes ago that today was Dec. 1. That's why I was going to start my 365 project today. And for half a second I thought about just waiting and actually starting on Dec. 1, but I worked really freaking hard for this shot, and I'm not going to waste it. I'll just have an extra "grace" day at the end. :)
Yes, I know I'm crazy, and possibly a little stupid, for reversing my lens on a windy, snowy, freezing day. But you know what? Sometimes in life, ya gotta take some risks. :)
This actually looks really crappy in Lightbox. Way better on white.
This hungry little fella was captured inmy Garden. Taken with the 18-55mm Kit lens with a reverse lens adaptor.
For the group Macro Monday, this week the theme was "Things that go together".
It's not very original, but I chose salt and pepper, but I decided to show one grain (or crystal) of salt, and one speck of pepper together.
This was done with reverse-lens macro, and focus stacking. I had to do a lot of erasing of extra lines etc because the focus was so close, each increment of changing focus moved the lens and created focus shadows. (I wish there were a program which could handle that problem.)
So, Happy Macro Mondays (HMM) everyone!
This is just a common snail shell.... the type of snail we see around here. (We don't seem to have those pretty colored ones here.)
The reason I liked this shell was that I didn't know snails could heal breaks in their shells, but obviously, that is what happened here.... if you look.
This is another Reverse Lens macro. I suppose I should mention that I also do focus stacking with most of these Reverse Lens macros.... I use the program Helicon Focus for that.
I wasn't entirely sure if this shell was empty... there was something in it, maybe just dirt. So I put it back out where I found it after its glamour photo session.
To anyone who wants to know how Reverse Lens Macro (or poor man's macro) works, I described it under this photo:
If you want to know what "Focus stacking" is, it simply means that I took several photos of this shell, each time moving the focus a little bit, so eventually I had about five photos, each one focused on a stripe of the shell (overlapping stripes, just like in panoramas).
Then I put the five photos into the program "Helicon Focus", and that program put the focused parts all together. (focus stacking really only works if you use a tripod, I have found.)
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I decided to have another go at this Texas longfang as it was being so cooperative. A rather problematic image, not perfect, but I still love the result.
Lens: Nikon 20mm reverse mounted, extended 77 mm.
As cherry / plum / almond blossoms are slowly on their way out, california poppies are making their appearance here in northern California. Spring this year seems to be in a rush!
This was shot couple years back with an old 50mm lens reverse mounted on Nikon D7200.
Colors/tones adjusted in Lightroom, then cropped and saved as JPG file in Photoshop.
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In Flickr Explore on 2023/03/29
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