this shoot is a hoot..... THANKS

Excellent series

Can you recommend a specific 50mm to reverse for a canon eos 1dII mount (preferably the most affordable but not sacrificing image quality too much)? These are spectacular images! You should be extremely proud!

chupacabra31 wrote:
Can you recommend a specific 50mm to reverse for a canon eos 1dII mount (preferably the most affordable but not sacrificing image quality too much)? These are spectacular images! You should be extremely proud!

follow the link and look at the magnification differences between the different 50's then pic the one you want , all can be had for under 40 $ on e bay.

http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/619903/0?keyword=rev,lens,s#5473004

Great photos. I like insect eyes--they are the original pixels. I'm glad I have old fashioned analog RGB eyes--with diopters.

Awesome shots! Great PP! Nice tutorial at http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/619903/ too!

Thank you!

I like the spiders best! Especially the last one!
Are those Raybans or Okleys?
Such a cute little codger.

The flies as George Carlin would say, are at least as interesting as golf.
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=AbSRCjG-VLk

I tried the reverse 50 tonight for the first time and was able to take some photos. Is there a way to control the DOF (would like it to be wider) and extend the focus distance (I have to get about 6 inches from the subject for it to be in focus)? Note, I don't have a reverse ring yet...just holding the lens up to the camera (20d). Thanks for all the good info here!!

jesphoto wrote:
I tried the reverse 50 tonight for the first time and was able to take some photos. Is there a way to control the DOF (would like it to be wider) and extend the focus distance (I have to get about 6 inches from the subject for it to be in focus)? Note, I don't have a reverse ring yet...just holding the lens up to the camera (20d). Thanks for all the good info here!!


DOF is DOF be it at 2to1 with a rev 50 or 28mm , or 100macro lens and tubes or a 180mm with tubes or extender. 6" is great wait till you get to 3x and have a working distance of less than an inch. that's Macro.

Keep trying it can take weeks and weeks and weeks to get good.

Thanks Tom

Simply excellent images Tom!!!

I do have to say I was inspired by this thread and always interested in macro. I bought an FD 50mm 1.8 and reverse ring on ebay for cheap. They both arrived today. I just got home and took a quick couple snaps. This could be a new expensive addiction....the rev 50 might be the gateway drug.

first couple shots just testing it out...excuse the ISO 800 grain.

the two flies getting it on are probably my favorite pics. well done.

I tried this trick also with 2 50mm's, one on the body(the Canon 50mm 1.8) and an old 50mm 1.8 Pentacon taped reversed on the other lens. (because I don't have an adaptor)

It is the wire of an Halogen lamp

I love the color combination in the second image and the similar rainbow in the spider image near the last in the series. While the detail in all of your shots is excellent, the color really adds something compared to the white backdrop/high key look.

First image of the flies "getting down to business" would sell like hot cakes for stock.

Jim

Great shots. I realised the other day that my reversing adapter fit onto the end of my Sigma 105 macro...super close ups, but I don't think any bug is going to stay still with a lens 5cms from it's face!

I have a Nikon system, and use a 105 micro, sometimes with a Canon 40D on the front of it. I have bought an old Nikon 50mm prime man focus lens, and a reverse/coupling ring to mount it on the front of the 105. I am currently practicing with this setup.
My main question is this: I have ordered a 52mm reversing ring to Nikon bayonet mount to enable me to reverse directly onto the camera body, but how does this work? I have also ordered a set of tubes.
What I mean is aperture, metering etc? I understand that to focus I move the camera, but what about exposure mode? I dont have a problem with manual, as most of my photography is underwater, with twin strobes, all on manual. I normally use an SB-800 with a newly made difuser for topside stuff.

You Betcha!! Grrreat Stuff for sure... as always, you can tell a Craftsman by how well he uses his tools for sure!!

These are very impressive macro photos! I've played around with reversed lenses (50mm and 28mm direct to the body with a BR-2A), but I rarely have success with live subjects. I did get some decent shots of a small spider once, but typically the various insects (or arachnids) scurry away well before I can get them in focus. Am I too slow? What's your technique for getting so close without scaring them away?

Inspired by this thread I got a FD 50mm lens and reversing ring from Ebay just yesterday and I'm wondering if there is any way to operate the f stop control without cutting up the canon rear cover that came with the lens?

What's really making these images pop is the rich lighting and colours (as well as the excellent sharpness). My question is this: how the heck are you getting such beautiful light? Do you set up coloured cards around your subjects to inject colour into the scene? What is your light source? You can't just be using the popup flash and natural light for these, can you?

To get the depth of field in some of these, you'd need an insane aperture - f16 or higher? (I'm at work, so I can't see exif data) So you have GOT to need a light. I just don't get how you're lighting these excellent images.

Tom,

Cutting a hole in the rear cap is the easiest solution. It also serves as a small hood that protects the rear element.

Thomas

tom1949 wrote:
Inspired by this thread I got a FD 50mm lens and reversing ring from Ebay just yesterday and I'm wondering if there is any way to operate the f stop control without cutting up the canon rear cover that came with the lens?

Dubious Drewsk wrote:
What's really making these images pop is the rich lighting and colours (as well as the excellent sharpness). My question is this: how the heck are you getting such beautiful light? Do you set up coloured cards around your subjects to inject colour into the scene? What is your light source? You can't just be using the popup flash and natural light for these, can you?

To get the depth of field in some of these, you'd need an insane aperture - f16 or higher? (I'm at work, so I can't see exif data) So you have GOT to need a light. I just don't get how you're lighting these excellent images.


D, only 3 of the shots have flash best I can remember ,it may only be two , because the others were taken outside and with the 50 or 28mm I don't use flash that much with my rev lens . If so it's with the 50 only . And when I do it's with the pop up . I don't own a ring or twin light system .

Does the manual focus still work in reverse, or do you focus only through changing the distance to the subject?

Matt K wrote:
Does the manual focus still work in reverse, or do you focus only through changing the distance to the subject?

Only through changing the dist to sub.

Tom Hicks: Strange beauty in the small, revealed via photography.