[Doundounba]

Alright, spring is finally arriving!

Sigma 50mm F/2.8 Macro:



Pentax-M 150mm F/3.5 plus reversed Pentax-A 50mm F/1.7, 3:1 macro:

[LeRolls]

FA77

[Finntax]

Few from Norway with DA 40 XS.

[LeRolls]

Few from Norway with DA 40 XS.

Must be a beautiful country. I like that first shot. Nice work!

[gda13]

Alright, spring is finally arriving!

Looking forward to your outdoor bug hunts!

FA77

The lighting on the second shot with the glasses is ideal, it allows for a softness on this attractive lady's skin. Well done!

Few from Norway with DA 40 XS.

Excellent!



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A few more of the imperial city from an early afternoon walkabout around the Perfume River, it was a rare free afternoon when we didn't have any "family event" obligations . This time with the 21mm ltd.

[Finntax]

Must be a beautiful country. I like that first shot. Nice work!

Thanks! I've been only in the most northern part of Norway that is accessible by car from Finland, but yeah, it's a really beautiful indeed.

I really like that Dakota5 shot of yours. There's just something hypnotic about the eyes of the model.

[Doundounba]

Saw a beautiful, complex, well-worn mural yesterday in Montreal. I had the new-to-me Sigma 50mm Macro with me, so I thought I'd see how it inspired me. Some of the results below...




(Red Hat (Close-Up) by Doundounba, on Flickr)



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[richardwong]

gda13 - Some more nice photos of Vietnam, keep them coming

Looking forward to your outdoor bug hunts!


The lighting on the second shot with the glasses is ideal, it allows for a softness on this attractive lady's skin. Well done!


Excellent!



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A few more of the imperial city from an early afternoon walkabout around the Perfume River, it was a rare free afternoon when we didn't have any "family event" obligations . This time with the 21mm ltd.

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Doundounba - nice texturing you caught with this shot Pascal.

Saw a beautiful, complex, well-worn mural yesterday in Montreal. I had the new-to-me Sigma 50mm Macro with me, so I thought I'd see how it inspired me. Some of the results below...




(Red Hat (Close-Up) by Doundounba, on Flickr)



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[LeRolls]

Felt like playing with cups today. FA31





Let me know which version you prefer. Thanks in advance!

[gda13]

gda13 - Some more nice photos of Vietnam, keep them coming

Thanks Richard! I'm deciding on which set to share next but in the meantime...

Felt like playing with cups today

The first shot.


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... a few random things from the past week.


Florida forest pond in mono with the 35mm ltd


Dragonfly with the 100mm macro Wr and available light


Under a gazebo with the Sigma 8-16mm

[Doundounba]

Doundounba - nice texturing you caught with this shot Pascal.

Thanks Richard! We will return shortly to our regularly scheduled bug shots...

[lukulele]

A few from the last couple of weeks with DA 55-300 and DA 50-200

[richardwong]

gda13 - neat dragonfly shot. How do you like the 100WR?

Thanks Richard! I'm deciding on which set to share next but in the meantime...




The first shot.


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... a few random things from the past week.


Florida forest pond in mono with the 35mm ltd


Dragonfly with the 100mm macro Wr and available light


Under a gazebo with the Sigma 8-16mm

[Doundounba]

Alright, I think the following is the macro shot I am most proud of since I started doing macro. Not necessarily the "best", but damn, 6:1 handheld single frame of a live, healthy jumping spider. Perhaps not yet in Thomas Shahan territorry, but I'm pretty stoked! (And for the arachnophobes in the room: I'm sorry - it's a really really small and harmless spider!)

Shot with a Pentax-M 150mm F/3.5 coupled with a reversed Sigma Superwide II 24mm F/2.8. Uncropped. Frame is under 4mm wide. Cross-posted to the "Thematic: Spiders" thread.

[gda13]

gda13 - neat dragonfly shot. How do you like the 100WR?

Thanks Richard! That dragonfly was super skittish, it kept taking off whenever I would get too close but luckily it seemed to have an affinity to the old dried up flower stalk of our Aloe plant and would come back. I just had to move slowly and it was fine after that.

Here is another shot of it with the 100WR and available light.



I like the 100WR, I had one back when I had a K7 but sold it because I wasn't really doing much macro however I soon regretted it and ended up picking up a 90mm tamron locally via craigslist for a super cheap price. The tamron is a great lens even at its retail price and has the benefit of a focus limiter, furthermore I didn't have any issues with its image quality whatsoever but I missed the design, size and metal lens body construction of the 100WR so eventually someone here on PF was getting rid of one for a deal I couldn't refuse and so I re-acquired it and have no intentions of ever getting rid of it again

...6:1 handheld single frame of a live, healthy jumping spider... Frame is under 4mm wide.

That is some crazy magnification and a nice capture! Just curious is it better to reverse lens or stack tubes to increase magnification? I ask because I might be interested to try my hand at high magnification macro sometime.