Post your critters & plants under the macro lens

[Heroique]

It’s a jungle down there.

Especially if you get close to creatures – like this menacing spider:





Nikon FM3a (hand-held)
Tamron 180mm/3.5 macro lens
Nikon SB-80dx (TTL flash on bracket)
Fuji Provia 100F
1/250th sec. @ f/32 manual exposure (about 1:1.5 magnification)
Nikon Coolscan 5000 ED/Nikon Scan

This fellow’s web stretched across a FS road near Mount Saint Helens (Wash. State). It was just high enough for my Honda Civic to pass under. Down the road I pitched my tent, then walked back with my macro lens. I captured the arachnid from both sides. Later that night, let’s just say my dreams were troubled. (If anyone can name the species, they’ll earn my eternal gratitude.)

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Maybe there are enough people here to give life to a small-format macro thread. What flora and fauna did you capture? What equipment made it possible? The magnification?

Often macro photography is a painful, knee-breaking, back-aching, strenuous business, so usually there’s a good story behind each shot. Please share yours.

[alfredian]

Probably in the genus Argiope. Hard to tell if it's a male (would have bulbs or "clubs" at the tips of the front pair of palps) or female (fairly straight palps). Argiope are large with bright coloration & build large webs. Argiope aurantia is very common here in the Northeast.--alfredian

[Heroique]

Thank you, alfredian.

Its size, bright-yellow underside, and ability to string a web across the road helps confirm your genus identification.

It occurs to me the letter “A” on its back confirms “Argiope” too. ;^)

Perhaps this thread can turn us into better naturalists.

[Bernice Loui]

Guess...




Wild/Leica M420, Volpi fiberoptic ring light, canon M3 digital.


Bernice

[Heroique]

Guess...

Good Lord, whatever that is, I don’t feel like there’s a happy story on the way. A jungle indeed.

Meanwhile, here’s a bee on a Rock Rose that’s so drunk on pollen, he didn’t mind my close working distance:



You might notice he has a tiny friend down there. I didn’t notice him at the time. Looks like an orange beetle with black polka dots. They seemed to be shaking more pollen onto the petals than they were collecting. A bit of drunken revelry.

Nikon FM3a (hand-held)
Tamron 180mm/3.5 macro lens
Nikon SB-22s (TTL flash on bracket)
+1.3 ev flash comp due to bright colors
Fuji Velvia-50
1/250th sec. @ f/22 (effective f/32-f/45)
The magnification was 1:1.3 – or approaching life-size on film

[Tin Can]

Ok

dried out cheeseburger

not

Guess...




Wild/Leica M420, Volpi fiberoptic ring light, canon M3 digital.


Bernice

[Bernice Loui]

Roasted coffee bean...


Bernice

Guess...




Wild/Leica M420, Volpi fiberoptic ring light, canon M3 digital.


Bernice

[Bernice Loui]

Getting much smaller... with a Leitz Ergolux.

National Semiconductor LH0032 with the "top off"..



Close up of a single bipolar transistor chip, brightfield lighting.


Same chip, darkfield lighting.




Bernice

[Tin Can]

Shot one bean 2016 on thread Micro sensor images including Macro

Click to enlarge

Bean2.1 by TIN CAN COLLEGE, on Flickr

Roasted coffee bean...


Bernice

[Daniel Casper Lohenstein]

What about 4x5?

It’s a jungle down there.

Especially if you get close to creatures – like this menacing spider:





Nikon FM3a (hand-held)
Tamron 180mm/3.5 macro lens
Nikon SB-80dx (TTL flash on bracket)
Fuji Provia 100F
1/250th sec. @ f/32 manual exposure (about 1:1.5 magnification)
Nikon Coolscan 5000 ED/Nikon Scan

This fellow’s web stretched across a FS road near Mount Saint Helens (Wash. State). It was just high enough for my Honda Civic to pass under. Down the road I pitched my tent, then walked back with my macro lens. I captured the arachnid from both sides. Later that night, let’s just say my dreams were troubled. (If anyone can name the species, they’ll earn my eternal gratitude.)

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Maybe there are enough people here to give life to a small-format macro thread. What flora and fauna did you capture? What equipment made it possible? The magnification?

Often macro photography is a painful, knee-breaking, back-aching, strenuous business, so usually there’s a good story behind each shot. Please share yours.