Post your Insect shots
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Scott Murray
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Scott Murray
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I thought it was cute lol
Ooooh I'm liking this one! Great catch my friend!
Thanks, Bill -- I really like these happy accidents
Today is a big day for me as it is exactly a year since I received my D3100. Suddenly, for the first time in my life, I could start to get interested in nature photography and macro in particular. It's possible to see how I've advanced in the latter through my photos in this thread and the spiders one, but it is really in the past couple of months or so that things have taken off and I am pushing the 40mm lens to its limit. I hit that limit today with it coupled to a 20mm macro ring.
Though not a great photo, this is about as small a subject as you can take in normal conditions, for the simple reason that the human eye has difficulty picking up anything smaller and you have to find the subject in the first place. This is one of those tiny spider-like mites that one sees simply because they are bright red. This specimen was about 1/4 mm long or 100th of an inch. The camera was hand held. I don't want to hear anyone decry the 40mm ever again.
Though not a great photo, this is about as small a subject as you can take in normal conditions, for the simple reason that the human eye has difficulty picking up anything smaller and you have to find the subject in the first place. This is one of those tiny spider-like mites that one sees simply because they are bright red. This specimen was about 1/4 mm long or 100th of an inch. The camera was hand held. I don't want to hear anyone decry the 40mm ever again.
Today is a big day for me as it is exactly a year since I received my D3100. Suddenly, for the first time in my life, I could start to get interested in nature photography and macro in particular. It's possible to see how I've advanced in the latter through my photos in this thread and the spiders one, but it is really in the past couple of months or so that things have taken off and I am pushing the 40mm lens to its limit. I hit that limit today with it coupled to a 20mm macro ring.
Though not a great photo, this is about as small a subject as you can take in normal conditions, for the simple reason that the human eye has difficulty picking up anything smaller and you have to find the subject in the first place. This is one of those tiny spider-like mites that one sees simply because they are bright red. This specimen was about 1/4 mm long or 100th of an inch. The camera was hand held. I don't want to hear anyone decry the 40mm ever again.
The 40mm is amazing - 1/4 mm hand held great shot.
At this level I would need to be on a tripod.
I just got the 105mm micro this week as my first macro lens (I used extension tubes before) and am just getting used to it.
