Post your best Macro shots

[Sean Setters]

Don

[Fast Glass]

You are going to be down on your knees outside searching for bugs in no time!!

Don't count on it... :-)
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LOL, LOL, LOL.[]


John.

[neuroanatomist]

It proved much tougher (because of the mirror-like onyx inset.

The onmidirectional lighting from a light tent can help. You can buy one like this, or make one yourself.

[Jonathan Huyer]

On our recent stay at a lodge in the Ecuadorian jungle, I was absolutely amazed at all the little critters that come out, especially at night. I brought along a Canon G12, but never realized how good it is at macro photography. A small sensor can achieve much greater depth of field and much closer focus than an SLR, with of course some sacrifice in image quality. Take this shot, for example, of the world's largest ant species.


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[Jon Ruyle]

A small sensor can achieve much greater depth of field and much closer focus than an SLR, with of course some sacrifice in image quality.

Many of them do focus very close. But DOF is not a function of sensor size. A DLSR with a lens used at the same aperture and with the same equivelant focal length would have exactly the same DOF.

Take this shot, for example, of the world's largest ant species.

How big was the ant? I was in Borneo some years ago and saw a *really* big one. I took a picture (with my G2... I guess that hints at just how many years ago....) of one of them, but it is too lame to post.


I find ants really tough because they move so fast... I don't know how you got that close focusing camera close enough to get this shot. Nice work.

[Jonathan Huyer]

That

[Fast Glass]

How about pouring a drop of liquid nitrogen to slow him down a bit[]


John.

[Jon Ruyle]

I would estimate it to be about an inch long.

Wow! It's hardly macro at that size


The one I saw was probably 1 cm long... I thought *that* was big.

[Ade]

My company, (forest management types), asked for a couple of shots for the cover of their newsletter &amp; corporate brochure, so i took these, (Published at last LOL).


5d mk1 100mm 2.8 IS L macro (shot at 2.8) - I love this lens, so easy to use.


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[Ade]

Some more;


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I like the pollen in this one, one of the few without my girlfriends finger in it flicking the tree.....


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