To set up this little story: I finally made the DSLR leap a whole 4 days ago, and I'm making an effort to shoot a lot of different styles, lenses, exposures, subjects, every day while I get to know the new toy. I don't normally shoot proper macro, but I have one manual macro lens that I adore, so today's challenge was to pair it with the new body and see what I could do with it. I found a bit of dried-up wasp's nest in the driveway on my way into the house, and I figured that with all the different textures and angles, not to mention its total lack of any desire to run away, it was a perfect subject to play at macro with.
I have no studio lights, but rigging up a white paper backdrop lit by my desk lamp seemed to fit with the spirit of playing with what I have to see what my new camera can do.
I have to say, I'm always impressed with what that 50mm macro can do:
However, I didn't count on having a studio assistant: