Ant on flower

[dexterlitonjua]

here is another macro photography done with my canon mount lens reversed on my d80(which is now dead actuation count 134,134)

C&C's are welcome

 

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great tones!

 

[Ashleigh80]

I really like it :thumbup: I had some pictures with bee's on flowers but lost the card they were on but yours is much nicer anyways. How do you make the and look so clear and the back round the way it is. I try to do that with some of my pics but it's like everything is in focus.

 

[dexterlitonjua]

I really like it :thumbup: I had some pictures with bee's on flowers but lost the card they were on but yours is much nicer anyways. How do you make the and look so clear and the back round the way it is. I try to do that with some of my pics but it's like everything is in focus.

for getting that very shallow depth of field what i use is a sakar canon mount 28mm 2.8 on a reverse lens adapter(nikon mount) it's pretty cheap compared to a high-end macro lens.
in the end of my adapter there is a thread mount which fits a 52mm size filter. so any lens that has a 52mm thread size will fit. i usually choose an old, single focal length, lens(preferably 50mm, 35mm and below) because they have aperture control rings. believe it or not, i shot this at f/11 and still gave me a very shallow DOF. to get that crisp image, i shoot everything with a flash and a light modifier i shoot with a flash bracket and an artificial light source like a flash and in my case, a sb-800.

I treat every insect that i shoot like models in a studio. everything is controlled except for the model

i shot this with a shutter speed of 1/125s, aperture of f/11 and iso of 100
just like the usual studio settings for a standard portrait with studio flashes