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My camera has been so dirty lately that I have stayed away from macros. Well, I had it cleaned yesterday and am so glad I did - I forgot how much I enjoy shooting these.
Today was a good day despite the fact it rained all day. I didn't have work ! Yuuus ! I was meant to be doing some ballet photos with Sarah but the rain ruined that plan so instead I decided to paint my nails in pastel shades of lilac and blue and go for a tea with Lex :). And I decided to do reverse macro with my 50mm lens, it was quite tricky but I managed to do it kind of :).
couple more bug shots tonight.
i keep finding bugs but after i spend some time setting my stall out to get the picture the bugs fly off! i think i need to be quicker - anyone know where i can get a cheap macro ring flash?
Somewhat inspired by my friend and colleague, (www.flickr.com/photos/51782392@N06/), I tried my first macro image stack this evening, having recently acquired a bellows unit. In the absence of any insects, I found a large feather outside to use as my subject. I have no idea what bird this feather has come from.
The image I have uploaded is a crop of the original. I have taken the top-right quarter of the image. I still have to get time to get the settings right.
This is a major draw-back of the A55 - something I have experienced in a studio-type setting, where the image shown on-screen is the image the camera expects to receive (and thus in cases like this, looks exceedingly under-exposed). Despite the 'focus check confirm' feature of the A55, I may find myself using the A700 for its OVF for projects such as this.
After experimenting a little more with my reverse macro adapter, I discovered I get higher magnification and less vignetting with the lens as far as possible from the subject, instead of as close as possible. This frame shows 20.5mm of ruler captured by a 22mm sensor for a 1.07:1 ratio, just over the traditional 1:1 ratio that denotes "true" macro photography.
Woohoo!
(This is using the Canon 50mm f/1.8 prime lens reverse mounted on the end of the Digital Rebel XT 18-55mm kit lens. At full size, it looks like I was slightly off on the focus.)
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This is my first attempt at reverse lens macros. I decided to give it a try and flipped my 17-50mm f/2.8 around and give it a whirl. So far it seems like it turned out ok! I need to work on this a ton, plus without the option of auto focus and the slim margin it takes a take a ton of shots to get one you like. :) But I am intruiged and will continue to try it out in the future.
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.
This is a 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. I use the SB-800 off camera to get enough light. This is the unedited JPEG image, straight out of the camera. (As for why the vignetting is off center, I don't know.)
To get a better idea of the scale of the photo, this photo shows the ring on Yayoi's finger. The ring could use a cleaning, so I'm not sure what's the diamond's natural flaws, and what's just dust and dirt on the outside.
A close-up of a miniature replica of my head; taken with a makeshift "double-lens reverse macro", in which I attached two 50mm f1.8 lenses face to face.
Here's another one i took on the same day last week of the same Male Jumping spider as seen on the leaf.
When i let him down on the floor, he chased some ants for a while but then he stopped and i noticed he was staring at something curiously. He had found this tiny aphid !
I could just about see the aphid, but when i took the picture i could see it a lot more clearly and i luckily got an infocus shot of the both of them, right before he munched it up which you will see in the next photo i post soon.
I'd say the Jumper was 5mm making the aphid around 1mm maybe smaller, to the naked eye a dust grain, literally.
For a better view, view on black here ; www.flickr.com/photos/sequentialmacro/7076186343/in/photo...
Common jumping spider's leg. Shot using reverse-ring macro techinque.
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This guy isn't easy to get, he found the lens frightening. I had a 50mm prime taped backwards to the end of a 70-300 macro/zoom lens with autofocus (but had to go manual)
Image includes post processing to lighten and correct color cast, as well as the bottom is cropped to remove excess water. Vignetting was minimal, not more than shows here in the corner.
When Ezhil Sir told me that "Jumping Spiders" are cute subjects, I had my own doubts. How could a Spider be "cute"?
Not until I saw it for myself from the other side of the Viewfinder, I realised how cute, curious and gregarious these creatures are. All the eight legs and six eyes (out of eight) are visible in this photograph.
Shot with a reverse mounted Nikkor 35mm f1.8G Lens.
Sometimes you have little enthusiasm. In which case Macro really helps. This is a small rock with holes in and plenty of processing.
Using reverse mounted adapter with my 50mm lens on my d80 i made an advertisement for Snowpeak. Shame its tiny but i couldn't find a Snowpeak logo large enough.
This is a 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. I use the SB-800 off camera to get enough light. This is the unedited JPEG image, straight out of the camera. If you think this is an extreme close up, try viewing the detail in the 10M original image.
The banana I used for this shot is here.
(This photo is definitely best viewed large.)
Yesterday I was reading the flickr blog entry about Reverse Lens Photography (http://blog.flickr.net/en/2010/05/07/turn-your-lenses-upside-down/) and got inspired to put together my Canon 70-200mm L 4f with my Tamron 28-200mm 3.8-5.6 and this is one of the results.
More on my blog:
Reverse mounted Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II, 1:1 magnification, handheld, lit with with shoe mounted Canon Speedlite 430EX II. Diffused with sto-fen omni-bounce and bounced off printer paper.
Another one from the archives... this was taken the same time as the pic below this past summer, and I just never got around to uploading it.
Photo 9/52 - Week 9, 2011.
Finally getting around to posting this week's photo. I have been flat out at work having troubles with HP.
Last weekend my wife had an invitation to High Tea for charity, Liam was with her which left me free for almost two hours to location scout for a photo for the Epson Panoramic competition. Last year I got a bronze award for my photo of the ferris wheel in Birrarung Marr so I am keen to give the competition another go this year.
So there I was, playing around with compositions and views when I notice this rather colourful moth on a cross beam. A quick swap to the 50mm and reverse lens macro scored me this shot.