Post your best Macro shots

[Dave Throgmartin]

A couple bee images, front profile and then side. You can see the bees tongue in the front profile!


2013_08_10_2642_LR_upd_8x10 by dthrog00, on Flickr


2013_08_10_2644_LR_upd by dthrog00, on Flickr

Thanks for viewing.
Dave

[conropl]

Looks like a good week for bees. Here is one from Friday morning.


Morning Dew -5799 by westmichigan, on Flickr

[Jayson]

Jason,

Nice images and sounds like you have some advanced techniques too! How do you prefer to do the focus stacking?

Dave

Dave, sorry it took me so long to respond. I really just use the focus as close as you can to the subject, move your camera either forward or backward, and fire off a series of shots. Usually I have good luck getting most of the bug or flower in focus as I move. I sometimes use a stick, branch or fence to stabilize myself or my lens. I adjust one of the photos in LR then apply to the rest. Then I use photoshop to align the layers, then blend the layers with stacking. After you do it a couple times it is actually pretty easy.

Here are a couple shots of a bee I captured last week. I stacked 6 shots each. I see that I did miss a shot where the focus isn't crisp on both shots.

[Jayson]

Joel, that was a cool looking moth wing!

Andy, lovely flower!

Kombi, I really like your Lily. Very nice DOF!

Watchman, you have some very lovely flower shots also.

Dave, the Damsels a great. Fun looking at those alien heads. Your bee shots are great! Bees do have a very strange tongue.

Pat, spectacular shot! Catching them in the morning and wet is the way to go. Looks like he is sticking his tongue out at you.

[Local Hero]

I've taken a few lately that I've been meaning to share. All were taken with the 6D and 100mm f/2.8L.

[M_Six]

Little experiment here. EOS-M, EF adapter, stacked 12mm and 25mm extension tubes on EF 40mm f2.8 lens, 270 EX II flash, manual mode, manual focus (by moving the camera), f16, 1/200s, +2EV, 100ISO, hand held.

Orange Peel and Seed

[Andy Stringer]

Mark, I would never have guessed that you took that with the pancake lens. Great creativity.

I thought I had found an unusual species of bee on my buddleja bush, until I saw it hovering. Bees can't do that. This one is a hoverfly that has evolved to mimic the honey bee.


Hoverfly on Buddleja by Andrew Stringer, on Flickr


Hoverfly on Buddleja by Andrew Stringer, on Flickr

[DavidWare]

Expect to see a lot of similar shots like this pop into this topic in the near future.

[neuroanatomist]

A couple of weeks ago, my wife was out in the garden and came rushing back inside to tell me there were a couple of praying mantises in the yard. We put them in a terrarium so our daughter's kindergarten class could have a look. These shots are of the male, taken after we released them back into the yard.

"Mantis"

EOS 1D X, MP-E 65mm f/2.8 1-5x Macro @ ~3x, 1/250 s, f/14, ISO 400, MT-24EX


"Mantis Prey"

EOS 1D X, EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM, 1/160 s, f/11, ISO 6400


Thanks for looking!

[Joel Eade]

Nice shots Neuro....I just received my MP-E 65 and MT EX 24 flash from Adorama (found a good deal on a used system) and I took this today hand held. Man, the depth of field is so thin with this lens I can see a focusing rail in my future. No other way to do stack focus. This is a single image.

1D MKIV + MP E 65mm @ 2X
ISO 800
1/320
f/16
MT EX 24 macro flash on manual @ 1/64 power