Post your best Macro shots

[clemmb]

Reversing my kit lens...



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Nice shoot. EXIF does not show lens info? Tell us more.


Mark

[MrGreenBug]

Nice shoot. EXIF does not show lens info? Tell us more.


Mark

Thanks Mark! As the kit lens was physically reversed and the only valid EXIF info are: ISO 400, 1/200, built-in flash fired at I think -1/3 (can't remember), distance from subject -- extremely close..


Here's a blog post I made for this: Macro By Reverse.


Cheers!

[clemmb]

Where do you find this reverse ring adapter?

[Colin500]

Yesterday I got my 100L, and today I went for a long hike to try it out.


So here are two of my first, and therefore by definition: best macro shots ;-)


Both hand-held (my new tripod hasn't arrived yet), 5D2, ISO 800, f/11, and the feather just happened to be attached to the twig, I wonder who lost it...


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Btw, looking at some of the other pictures: I'll be trying out focus-stacking soon...


And one question: Today I only saw one beetle, and he scampered off before I could try out whether a polariser would make the specular reflections less harsh, any experience with that?

[bob williams]

Nice shots Colin, I especially like the bee shot. How are you liking the 100L

[Colin500]

Nice shots Colin, I especially like the bee shot. How are you liking the 100L

Thanks!


I really enjoyed running around with the 100L because I could finally move in to everything as close as I wanted. The AF is a joy, super fast and precise, except when you start with the focus being too far off, then it just sits there and does nothing. Btw, I find the focus-limit switch unintuitive, would have expected a different order of the switch positions with "everything" in the middle.


If it performs well enough for portraits I can sit out however long it takes for a 135L f/2 IS to arrive ;-) But I can already say that there won't be any buyers remorse regarding the 100L... Even though it's a bit too short to act as my outdoor-hiking-do-everything, but I knew that already because even my 70-200 is often too short for how I'm currently shooting landscapes. 100L + 300L would be perfect for me (or 100L + 100-400), but that'll have to wait a bit.

[MrGreenBug]

Where do you find this reverse ring adapter?

A photo equipment/accessories shop here are selling it. [] It's something like this:http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&amp;field-keywords=reverse+ring&amp;x=0&amp;y=0


Cheers!

[eam73]

This is one of the first macro shots I ever did:


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Canon 7d, 100mm f/2.8 macro, f/4.0, 1/100 s, ISO 1000


Haven

[burd]

7D 100 2.8 1/200 @ f/16 flash bounced

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