First attempt as Reverse lens macro - a fly thingy

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Wow... that setup must be pretty heavy. Have you got a pic of it for interest sake.

Detail is brilliant. I use the 18-55mm reversed but that's for my crop sensor camera.

Only crit is framing subject needs to be moved up a little and over to the right a little not to cut off legs.

Edit: Why do you feel the need to catch the bugs? You do realise most say 99% of the images taken are in the wild and not home setups of captured and cooled bugs. Also just like to say I have never had or felt the need to put out enticer's to find bugs. There is plenty to be found in the wild and the real skill is not to scare them away and get close.

For this stack did you do it handheld or tripod and rail?
 
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Excellent first studio stack. You've got nice lighting although there are some strong highlights of the reflective surfaces in the centre. Good choice of background colour and well lit. There looks to be some strong CA around the outer edges of the eyes, although I'm not sure if this is from the stacking process, the lens or the background reflecting back.

The patterning on the eye is caused by dehydration of the eye surface, and is usually to be avoided by those who do this type of work. Have a look at johan's site - he has some interesting articles about preparing subjects for studio stacks.

Tintin124 said:
You do realise most say 99% of the images taken are in the wild and not home setups of captured and cooled bugs.
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Not sure that's true, although shots of live subjects are prevalent on this forum, there is plenty of interest in high magnification stacks of prepared subjects.
 
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TimmyG said:
Not sure that's true, although shots of live subjects are prevalent on this forum, there is plenty of interest in high magnification stacks of prepared subjects.
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Of course your right on this forum was more what I was referring. Also note it's live subjects in there natural environment.
 
so I'm going to capture a few and freeze them so that I can get a good macro short - only the very common species of course, then when done I'll feed them to the local lizards
 
It is more fun capturing them out and about - the real reward with that is finding bugs you've never seen before or capturing additional bugs that you just didn't spot in the view finder.

Now you have your technique sorted - go get some wellies on and get dirty :)
 
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