It's been a really long time since I took some close-up photos of insects. This lovely specimen sat on my thumb (pictured) for quite some time, posing for the few photos I took of it. In this photo, it is seen having a wash.

Taken with a El-Nikkor 50mm f/2.8 reverse-mounted on a set of bellows to the A77 Mk2.

more reverse macro...can't believe this came out as well as it did...this lavender was swaying in the breeze

A tiny spider only a couple of millimeters long found in my garden.

Experimenting with macro by reversing prime lens 50mm. It was hard to get the right focus but in the end it created a dreamy look which I like.

Canon EOS 500d

Canon 28mm FD lens in reverse

Canon 430EX flash

Modified diffuser softbox

Photoshop HDR and editing

This is my eye taken at about 2:1 magnification, with added side light. Had to edit some reflections out of the photo with CS5. Detail was much sharper than previous attempts.

hand-held reverse macro, Nikkor AIS 28/2.0, very hard to keep focus, no reverse adapter...

Macro using a 3$ reverse ring, to fit Ef 18-55mm lens on canon 350D

... in reverse macro

Strobist info - object placed on a table and an SB-600 standing next to it triggered remotely and aimed at the ceiling at 1/8 or 1/4 power.

i was playing around with a sieve and some purple paper and this is what i came up with.

Reverse Macro Photography

Nikon D90

Reversed Nikkor 35-70mm (Analog Lens)

52mm Reverse Macro Ring

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Was looking for Macro subjects with my reverse mounted 50mm lens, when this Snail captured my attention. Looked hard at this Mollusc's slimy, gooey and sticky body but I could not find its eyes. Later learnt that a Snail's eyes are in its Antennae.

I have an other shot where it trains its antennae in the same fashion as a Bull would at a Matador in a Bull fighting Arena.

Canon EOS 5D+

Carl Zeiss Jena Pancolar 1.8/50+

Carl Zeiss Planar 1.4/50

A worm on the rose. Shot with a reverse mounted 18-55 kit lens. Made a hole in the body cap and fixed a conversion ring to it to get a reverse lens adapter.

Canon EOS 5D+

Carl Zeiss Jena Pancolar 1.8/50+

Carl Zeiss Planar 1.4/50

ISO 200 - 50mm - f/1.8 - 1/3200

Another attempt at a reverse Macro shot! This one turned out fairly well. This afternoon after hours of downpour the sky parted and spots of blue poked through. I took advantage and shot outside to a walk way near my apartment to see if there was anything interesting to shoot! I found this beauty... :)

Done using reverse macro technique with Canon FD 50mm lens attached to the A710 with the Canon adapter.

Hopefully, I will get a chance to do this with my new Canon 30d once I get (or can afford to get) the 100mm macro lens - should be a lot sharper as well!

...and we're back to no color again!

I've been very busy today, so this simple reverse macro shot was all I had time for :)

10/3 '10

Canon PowerShot S90 with SMC Pentax-M 50mm F1.7

They are back, munching on our crown flowers.

My365

Reverse lens macro, long exposure on tripod.

I don't even know what bug this is, but you can see the bug lying on it's back, legs twitching, in this photo. This photo is the bug's face, as seen while the bug is on his back.

This is double lens reverse macro shot taken with my Nikon 70-300mm VR mounted on the D80, with a male-to-male 67mm-52mm ring used to reverse mount my Nikon f/1.4 50mm to the front of the 70-300mm. The 70-300mm is set to 300mm, meaning (300mm:50mm) that I'm shooting at 6x magnification. That means the image you see here is on a scale six times smaller than the sensor on the D80...the entire frame of this uncropped image would be approximately 3.9 x 2.6 mm, meaning every millimeter in real life is represented by just under 1,000 pixels, and a square millimeter is represented by just under a million pixels. A lot of detail for not a lot of space.)

In order to have any sort of usable DOF, the 70-300mm was set to f/40 by the D80, while the 50mm is manually set to f/1.4 with the aperture ring. I use an SB-800 off camera to get enough light. This is the unedited JPEG image, straight out of the camera.

I recently heard about the "reverse macro" technique (turning your lens backwards) so I thought I'd give it a shot. Found it hard to get good focus, but still fun!

Now this image was truly hard to get, waiting for the tap to drip - genuine patience, then getting the shot and seeing it out of focus - genuine frustration, getting a shot in focus - priceless !

ISO - 400

1/200 Shutter Speed with Flash

Canon 550D

18-55mm Lens.

Good timing.

Canon EOS 5D+

Carl Zeiss Jena Pancolar 1.8/50+

Carl Zeiss Planar 1.4/50

new 50mm fd f2 lens, look at large please

Lego head, about 1cm wide.

Reverse macro - turn the lens around

hand-held reverse macro, Nikkor AIS 28/2.0, very hard to keep focus, no reverse adapter...

hand-held reverse macro, Nikkor AIS 28/2.0, very hard to keep focus, no reverse adapter...

Reverse macro . This flower is about 1 cm.

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Inspired by Brian aka bojangles_1953. Since I don't have a real macro lens or extension tubes I used my reverse macro filter to mount my 50mm lens on backwards. It gives a macro effect, but with a very narrow depth of field, which is why mine are not as sharp throughout as Brian's are.

Reverse macro focus ring test with Carl Zeiss Planar T* 50mm f1.7

Clearing out my 2010 files and finding a few keepers. These are all reverse 50mm macros.

Any guesses what this is? It's an every day item.

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Here's the final image i got of the little Jumper with the mite being gobbled up :-)

Again, not sure if it is actually a mite or aphid, but i don't have a clue what it was so i'm going with that.

For a better view please VIEW ON BLACK.

Cheers.

Stack of 24 images. Taken with Nikon D800, Edelkrone Action Module (for stepper motor movement), and stacked in Zerene stacking software (pMax).

Redflower False Yucca outside of George Pearl Hall.