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This is the first experiment of many planned in which I am going to attempt to create customizable Photoshop actions based on some of Greek mythology's characters. I still haven't made an action of this one, some more tampering needs to be done.
I'm hoping this will give me an opportunity to sharpen some of my editing skills (not necessarily by having an arson of actions, but by knowing how to imply a certain feel or mood in my pictures).
Anyhow, that's the idea so far. I hope to follow through.
And if you haven't already, get Firefox 3. It finally supports color profiles (if you save your images in Adobe RGB 1998 you will like the upgrade.)
Patient little fly sat there in the warmth of my desk lamp for a very long time so that i could make long time exposures. :-)
Tripod
Tokina 28mm f/2.8 (reverse)
f/16
1,6 sec
ISO 100
no flash
This here is the setup i use to get macro images of insects I've been posting on Flickr to date.
The body is a Canon 550D
The lens is a 50mm Mark 2 Prime lens.
This lens is reversed on a set of macro extension tubes with a 52mm thread reverse ring.
I made the extension tubes longer with a toilet roll and some duct tape.
The flash is connected to the camera body via a flash chord and the flash has a diffuser attached - Home made and one built in.
Any questions, feel free to ask me. Thanks.
Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II reverse mounted on Sigma 70-300mm f/4-5.6 DG APO, handheld, 2:1 magnification. Lit with on board flash through DIY flash diffuser.
2 images focus stacked using CombineZM
Saw this mayfly hanging out on my window screen and wanted to practice a bit with my then new DIY flash diffuser. I never realized these little guys had huge green eyes until taking the pic. To give a sense of scale, the faint squares in the background are the holes in my window screen, similar to the tiny jumping spider pics in my photostream. These bugs usually only live a few days or less. Crazy!
I have an infestation of these little critters - asian ladybugs.
Reverse macro, auto chinon MC 50/1.7 on Pentax 18-55 @ 55 mm, Pentax K200D. Pop-up flash bounced off a sheet of white paper.
Taken in Tokyo.
Another shot of the spider 2 back in my stream. My reverse lens gives me a working distance of 10cm (no nearer nor further) and at f/22.0 I get a DOF of about 4mm. This is roughly the tightest crop I can get before things look too grainy. Here, I could've made the shutter speed much lower and brought down the ISO, but I was so eager to get a shot before it scarpered off on me =P. Guess I'll be more patient in future as I get more shots under my belt.
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Canon EOS 60D | ISO 1600 | f/22 | 1/125 | 0 EV | 50mm Lens Reversed | AWB | Getty Images
Vivitar 75-300mm @ 75mm @ f8 + Reverse held 28mm @ f2.8 + FL360 off camera flash, handheld!
This tiny tomato was the size of a small marble! - way too much zoom!
Thought i'd try it as had read up on it! :) I like it as looks like a tomato due to the smaller aperture of the 28mm making it circular/ black edge.
Alas, my dreams have come true! By the work of my brother, I have obtained the necessary parts to reverse my 18-55mm lens, thus transforming it into an able macro lens! My heart rejoices =)
Reached #332 in Explore! Thanks everybody!
I found this guy within inches of the jumping spider with the hover fly.... just 2 days later. With some help from Alex Wild and a couple of other entomologists/photographers, we managed to get the Silphidae to pose for this shot. The mites are apparently harmless to the beetle, and are just along for the ride. Much more concerning is the presence of the beetle itself, which tends to enjoy eating rotting animals!
I'm not 100% sure, but I believe I was using a 50mm reversed on halfway extended bellows. My flash bracket had broken, so my flash was mounted directly in the camera's shoe with a mini softbox on it.
Stamen of the Agapanthus flower - Canon 100mm with reversed Canon FD 50mm 1.8
Strobist: -
SB25+SB28 (bungied) through white umbrella cam left @ full power
In the coming week, I'm expecting delivery of my newest lens, the Canon MP-E super macro. I've been looking round the house for easy starter subjects. I have quite a few plants on the windowsill, and they have been colonised by fungi, spiders, springtails and goodness knows what else. Today I reverse-mounted the 50mm onto my current macro lens (plus teleconverter) to see what was there. This provides 4x magnification at the sensor, but this image is a ~2/3 crop, so is even smaller - less than 6mm across.
This is a dead coffee leaf that has been colonised by a delicate meadow of fungal fruiting bodies. The fungus is just visible to the naked eye.
Canon EOS 5D mark III, Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM, Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM (reverse mounted), Kenko MC-7 2x teleconverter, Canon Speedlite 600EX-RT (tripod, Live View manual focus).
200mm/50mm, f/64-f/1.4, 1/200, ISO 800 (exif incorrect).
Tried some reverse macro tonight. I really need to get a ring...it's so difficult to hold steady and hold the lens. I liked the button idea. Someday I'll get a macro lens. It'll open up a whole new world to explore.
Hi ! :)
Been a while since i went out and took my macro equipment with me for some close up photos, so with today off i decided to find something and spend as much time as possible getting the perfect picture to post on my flickr.
After buying the 50mm F1.8 prime lens for macro photography a while back, i decided it was best to sell it and instead buy cheaper, FD lens's to reverse mount on my Canon 550D EF camera, which works just as well if not better !
In hine sight i wasted a lot of money on the 50mm lens but managed to get some back by selling it on ebay and instead i bought a 28mm F2.8 FD lens for £15 and it has a manual aperture ring which is what i always wanted as i can now quickly change from f5 to f11 if light changes or the size of the subject were to change :D
Please leave a comment if you like the picture, may be a little too edited but i think people miss where the actual eyes are on a ladybird, you can clearly see in this photo where they are and why they look like every other beetle out there.
Taken with a canon t2i with a reversed 18-55mm kit lens and a home made flash diffuser on the pop up flash!
On a rainy Christmas day here in Auckland I managed to get out when the rain stopped and got a few photos of the monarchs drying their wings.
This is a reverse lens photo of a Nikkor 50mm f/1.8. The lens was reversed and handheld on the camera and then held close to a mirror for the self-portrait. I had the lens aperature set to f/8 manually on the lens
Canon Powershot SX30 +
+reverse ring M49- M58 + jupiter 9 2/85
focal lenght (35mm equivalent) f = 169 mm
Aperture A = 4,5
Shutter t = 1/320 s
ISO 100