Some more macro shots

[sparkplug]

This may not be as exciting as the viper but I just don't run across vipers every day so this is all I have. If anyone has any suggestions on making these pics more appealing, please let me know. I print and frame these pics for a school in Costa Rica to get the kids interested in their environment. These are gifts, I don't charge anything. It is a very poor community and I try and help out when I can. We really have it made here in the states, more or less.


I hope none of these are reposted from before but I can't be sure and I am too lazy to check.

This guy is like 4 inches long

These last ones are just me playing around. Can you guess what they are? None of these pics are photoshoped. These come direct from the camera.

 

[Shiari]

You photographed a Steve! yaaaaay! Great shots on all of these.

 

[gelshark]

r those some sort of bubbles?

 

[desertanimal]

Wow! What are you using to take those dragonfly shots! I have been able to creep to within a few inches of a dragonfly, but have certainly never been able to get that kind of detail out of the macro setting on my camera. But I would love to!

 

[Daenerys]

Those pictures are AMAZING!!! If it didn't cost me an arm and a leg, I would love to get a macro lens as good as that one.

 

[SquamishSerpents]

wow, those really are some beautiful photos! you have got an eye for it, that's for sure.

may i ask what camera/macro lens you're using?

 

[sweet~nichole~marie]

Those insect shots are amazing. I never knew dragonflies had such hairy faces! And I love the little jumping spider. They are actually the only kind of spider that doesn't give me the heebie-jeebies!

I love what you are doing for the kids in Costa Rico. That is awesome, and what a great idea. I teach at a school with lots of city kids, gangs, low-income, and Latino immigrants. I am amazed at how little my kids know of the natural world (I teach science). I may have to put up similar photos to interest them!

 

[ceduke]

Oh, these are wonderful! I especially love the spider! <3

 

[Jessicat]

You photographed a Steve! yaaaaay! Great shots on all of these.

My first thought as well!

 

[sparkplug]

r those some sort of bubbles?

Oil and water in the first ones. I just moved different magazine pictures under clear glass cookware for colors. The last one is soap bubbles.

Thanks everyone for the comments.

 

[cobained]

Just found this thread looking at the WIR. These shots are awesome! Do you have a website or sell prints in the US?

 

[tyflier]

I'd like to know what lens you're using. These are some fantastic macros!

 

[sparkplug]

Just found this thread looking at the WIR. These shots are awesome! Do you have a website or sell prints in the US?

I just take pics because I enjoy taking them. I have turned other things in my life that I loved into work. I want to keep this hobby a hobby. If you really want a picture, I can send them to you for free. Thanks for the complement.

I'd like to know what lens you're using. These are some fantastic macros!

I use a Canon EF 100mm 2.8 L IS USM lens now but most of these pics were taken with a non "L" series lens. I have said before that similar results can be achieved with extension tubes at a fraction of the cost. Thank you for the kind words it really keeps me motivated to take more.

 

[desertanimal]

Thanks for the info and the tip! *off to google "extension tube"*

 

[kalena]

That second bubbly-shot (kinda muted green and red) reminds me of a planet with like a zillion moons. Long, long ago in a galaxy far, far away...

 

[tyflier]

Thanks for the info and the tip! *off to google "extension tube"*

Extension tubes are a set of rings that fit your camera and move your lens further away from the camera. This greatly decreases the minimum focusing distance, and allows you to turn a telephoto lens into a deep macro...