Closeup of Crassula ovata flower (Jade Tree)

erisian pope

Here's another image which I coaxed from my Jade tree's flowers. This time I used a 50mm lens reversed on the front of my Sigma 105mm. I used my DIY ringflash again. It's amazing how close I can get with the 50mm in front of the 105! These pink anthers are maybe 1mm long, and a little less than 0.5mm wide.



Thanks for looking! (Crits and feedback are always welcome!)

Skippy

erisian pope wrote:

Here's another image which I coaxed from my Jade tree's flowers. This time I used a 50mm lens reversed on the front of my Sigma 105mm. I used my DIY ringflash again. It's amazing how close I can get with the 50mm in front of the 105! These pink anthers are maybe 1mm long, and a little less than 0.5mm wide.

Thanks for looking! (Crits and feedback are always welcome!)

Hi there Erisian Pope,

I like this shot better than the first one you took of this flower.
You have some points clearly in focus with this shot

Great shot, very good light too .... Skippy
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Lord Vetinari

Love this shot- well done !
Brian V.

erisian pope

Thanks for the feedback, all! I agree - this shot is simpler, cleaner, with better colors.

LivingLarge

erisian pope wrote:

....This time I used a 50mm lens reversed on the front of my Sigma 105mm. I used my DIY ringflash again. It's amazing how close I can get with the 50mm in front of the 105! ....

Can anyone explain what is needed to do this? I think I would like to try this technique but need to get the right gear...

Thanks

erisian pope

There's a professional method and a more casual method that are pretty similar except for the gear involved. What I did was pretty casual... I put my Sigma 105mm macro lens on my camera normally. I then took my 50mm lens and removed both caps and placed it in front of my 105mm lens but backwards (so that the side of the lens that normally connects to the camera is now facing outwards). I then used some packing tape to hold it onto the 105.

The more professional method would be to use a step-up ring so that the filter-size of the 2 lenses could be made to match (ie - my 50mm lens is a 52mm, and my 105mm lens is a 58mm so I could buy a 52-58 stepup ring and place that onto the 50mm lens then get a "reverse adapter" which is a ring that is threaded on both sides and you literally screw that onto the 105mm lens then screw the 50mm with it's stepup ring onto the adapter and now the lenses are screwed into each other.

Here's a site discussing the technique in general and then a second site discussing the reverse adapter:

http://stephenelliot.com/2007/05/15/reverse-lens-macro-photography-tutorial/

http://photos.bahneman.com/Reviews/58mm_Reverse_Macro_Adapter/

EDIT: you always want the longer lens (in my case the 105mm) on the camera and the shorter lens (the 50mm) reversed and in front.

LivingLarge

Thank you Christian, I will try this tommorrow with a mini-diorama that my daughter in law recieved for christmas. Thank you again.

GOLDENORFE

great shot, like it better than previous shot.
phil

http://www.flickr.com/photos/goldenorfe/