Yeatzee - Great shots there. No way I could carry that rig around with me, I shoot all hand held with extension tubes so I can be mobile. sometimes with flash, sometimes without.
Here are a couple of recent ones, I'll have to di a bit for some of the other ones.
Close up crop of a grasshopper taken August 15. Got some nice full body shots, but this one had good enough detail to crop in really close, and I like getting close detail of insects and flowers you normally don't see that close. Until I started doing macro last year I Had no idea what many insects and tiny flowers actually looked like up close.
That's the reason I started the Tiny Flowers thread. Most people walk right by White Clover every day and never really take a close look and see what it actually looks like., I was amazed...same as the grasshopper below, before I got into macro photography I just saw a brownish grasshopper jump away from me when I walked near it. I had no idea what kin of tiny details were there if I just looked a bit closer.
Grasshopper taken in august.
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Small bee taken a couple of weeks earlier. This one is a bit over a half inch long. This was the only shot that came out decent, this guy refused to sit still.
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Another smaller bee, this picture taken earlier than both of the previous ones. He's sitting on a Coreopsis flower, the middle red/brown section about the size of a pencil eraser. This bee is under a half inch long.
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Damselfly earlier this summer. This one didn't want me close, it took more than a dozen tries before it finally sat still for a few minutes and let me get close enough for some shots.
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Most of these already posted in other threads somewhere along the way.