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Macro beyond 1:1

A place for macros with less than 24mm x 36mm - including select deep crops from 1:1 shots.

Detail 1:1 pixel-wise from the portrait, showing about 4.0mm x 2.6mm.

Developed both in Rawtherapee 5.9 and in darktable 4.6, the Rawtherapee...

Male halictus bee

Tongue detail

Stowing tongue for takeoff

Folding out

Ten degrees Celsius and sun on the hives lured the bees out for the first flight day, whereas the ground was still mostly covered in snow. Too cold...

Ant harvesting sweet liquor from an aphid

Pentax KP, DFA50mm Macro on extension rings (~ 2:1).

A wasp planting eggs into aphids.

Deep crop (100%) into a photo taken with the IRIX 150mm.

Communicating ants.

Taken with the IRIX 150mm on extension rings - which turned out to not close the aperture. Deep crop (scaled to 50%) - the...

Ants tending to aphids - after 'drumming' it took a while for the aphid to release the sweet residues - which the ant shortly after realised.
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Ants tending to aphids

Taken using a Diaplan Projector lens, 8mm paper aperture, Raynox M250 handheld in front of bellows at approximately 3:1 and...

Ants tending to aphids

Taken using a Diaplan Projector lens, 8mm paper aperture, Raynox M250 handheld in front of bellows at approximately 3:1 and...

Ants tending to aphids, "drumming" to stimulate aphids to release the sweet liquor - containing excess sugar.

Taken using a Diaplan Projector...

Wasp trying to hunt aphids, furiously fended off by the ants.

Crop from a photo taken with IRIX 150mm + DA 1.4x converter on a KP.

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