Due to the crickets infesting the last thread, let's throw this one wide open.
Any Macro or Close-Up taken in 2025 will be eligible.
Let's see your recents, folks !
Ron
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Here's one from the front yard,
Cymbalaria muralis:
Moss sporophytes, on the stone of the old wall...
Details of a small flower.
(for cross-viewing)
In this image, the 3d effect works very well 👍
Hello again!
I found this one under some leaves, and I think it was finishing its molt. It seemed like a very big bug, about five or six centimeters long, but now someone will come along and bring up one that's a hand's length long 😄
More like an inch or two, doc ...
Ted Cousins.
Only in Texas ...
1-1/4" !!
Ted Cousins.
I have been experimenting with extreme macro a bit recently. I've tried Fotodiox bellows, which is a real pain with Nikon lenses that don't have aperture rings and default to the smallest possible aperture. You have to reverse mount them and jam something into the back of the lens to force the aperture tab open. The Fotodiox bellows are quite flimsy, so they bounce around when you adjust the focusing rail. I probably should have gotten a used PB-6, which is more rigid and allows you to operate the aperture tab using one of the old-fashioned mechanical cable releases (which I still have from my Crown Graphic days.) I have had the best luck so far with lens stacking. I use a Nikon 70-200 f/4 on my D500 and reverse-mount a Sigma 18-35 f/1.8 to it. At 18 and 200, the magnification is about 11:1. Here's a sample of the results. It's a ~2 mm section of a butterfly wing.
