What occured to me is that the Canon MP-E 65mm F/2.8 Super Macro 1-5x lens is used for extreme macro shooting at very short distances. The distances are so small that adding a ringflash may just spoil things already. So I set out to figure out a new way to light the subject. Especially since […]
All about reversing Lenses for macro
A lot of people are looking into creative ways to use their regular lenses for macro. The trick is to make a lens focus up closer so magnification is boosted. Tubes are a good idea, close-up lenses might work. Reversing your lens is a whole other ballgame, and it can lead to significant magnifications. But […]
The Grand Macro Test
Very often I’ve played with various lenses, tubes, close-up filters and reverse-mount rings. But I actually never did a big test on my various lenses to see how they perform in the macro realm with all the tricks I could think of. So now I finally decided to do all the macro tests using […]
Perfecting macro shooting: My phases in ...
Shooting macro has always interested me. Since I was a kid I tried to shoot bugs and other small creatures with a standard film camera… which failed of course. My father owned an SLR camera (which was old even for those days), but he had a bellows and managed to shoot a wasp up real […]
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