Post your best Macro shots

[Jayson]

Just a few from a bouquet of flowers. Taken with 7d, 100mm macro USM, 36mm kenko tube with window light.

[Kayaker72]

Seriously amazing photos above. Usually I try to compliment a couple of favorites...but I really like all of them.


Here isa series of Phlox I took yesterday.


All with the Canon 7D, 100L Macro


1/320, f/5.6, ISO 100


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1/1250, f/2.8, ISO 100


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1/1600, f/2.8, ISO 100


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1/2000, f/2.8, ISO 100


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Feel free to comment or critique.


Thanks,


Brant

[clemmb]

Not really a macro lens


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Camera Model: Canon EOS-1D Mark II N
Lens: Tamron SP 70-300mm f/4-5.6 Di VC USD
Image Date: 2011-05-30 14:11:30 +0000
Focal Length: 300mm
Aperture: f/5.6
Exposure Time: 0.0005 s (1/2000)
ISO equiv: 400
Exposure Bias: none
Metering Mode: Partial
Exposure: aperture priority (semi-auto)
White Balance: Auto
Flash Fired: No (enforced)

[ddt0725]

Very nice "macro" shot, Mark! I love those flowers and have a number of them planted in pots around my house ...very easy to grow, which I like!


I'm still waiting for the bees to appear but here's a few other macro shots I took this weekend ...










These were all hand-held so not the sharpest but hopefully I'll have some better ones soon!

Denise

[Jayson]

Great shots everyone. Always nice to see the flowers coming back. Hopefully I can finally catch a couple. I did manage some dew earlier this week.

[neuroanatomist]

My 3-year old loves finding these in the yard and garden:


"Eastern Tent Caterpillar"



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EOS 5D Mark II, EF 100mm f/2.8<span style="color: #ff0000;"]L Macro IS USM, 1/100 s, f/18, ISO 500

[qwRad]

Great caterpillar, I have to go out and find one too! Excellent flowers too! Here is a spider I saw the other day and some ants (more photos of them and some other small things in my blog)



7D + 100mm L IS USM Macro @ f/8.0, 1/125sec, ISO400



7D + 100mm L IS USM Macro @ f/8.0, 1/160sec, ISO3200

[ddt0725]

Nice dew drop, Jayson! I've been trying to get the reflection of something in raindrops lately such as a flower but I've been unsuccessful so far.


Love the caterpillar shot, John! Your daughter must be delighted when she finds these!


qwrad - those shots are super sharp! Did you use a tripod? Macro slider?


Here's a few I took tonight. Still haven't brought my tripod out or my slider for macro shots ...maybe this weekend.

[qwRad]

Thanks Denise, yours are great too, great lighting and nice dark background. Both of my shots here and most in the blog post are handheld, only the ones of the fly are shot with a tripod (indoors on a white A4 paper with natural light). The head closeup is shot using extension tubes. Been thinking about the macro rail too, let me know what you think of it if you get one.

[freelanceshots]

neuroanatomist,


I could never let that insect crawl across my hand. When I was a child all the neighborhood kids including me would play with the big green cecedias where I picked one up a few years ago to tease my dogs and it somehow bit me or poked me where it really hurt. I will never pick up another one of those for the rest of my life God willing. Anything that has more then 8 legs is off limits as well.