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.
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