First shot with MP-E 65mm Macro

I got this new lens and love it. It's hard to stop playing around and take some high quality shots. I just want to walk around with it hand held and snap away which isn't as hard as everyone led me to beleive about this lens even at 5:1 with a flash.

Here's one of my first pics with no cropping of PPing except to resize.
The second image has slight cropping and sharpening but he was very small and it was almost dark when I took the shot so it was hard to focus.

congrats on new lens, I like the Leafhopper.

Thanks. I sit around at work daydreaming of the chance of getting to use it again, but with work and 5m baby it's hard to find time.

Congrats on the lens. That leafhopper is wicked well done.

I got a small bit of time to take some more shots tonight before dinner. These things were the size of a pencil tip 1-2mm.

Excellent start- love the last 2 shots
brian v.

Another example of why I love macro. There's no chance you'd see that details with the naked eye. (Not with my eyesight anyway... :rolleyes

Great shots.

Thanks for the comments.

the weird thing was that I went into my back yard looking for bugs and couldn't find any. I wanted another crack at the leaf hopper that is usually on my basil. I just happened to see a spec that looked like a piece of the dead flower in a flower cluster. That's where the weavil shot came from. While I'm shooting the weavil I see two of these miniture white spiders that were on the flower cluster but I didn't even know they were there until I looked throught the lens to get the weavil. I had pulled off 3" of stem to stick on my deck table to take these shots so I wouldn't get eaten alive by mesquitos. The spider ended up flying away! I think he made a parachute and jumped to let the small breeze take him. I could actually see him float away for about 30'. I don't understand how I could see him that well when he was so small, but he was backlit against the sky and maybe the flying contracption he must have made made him big enough to be visible as he floated away. It was a surreal moment because I was like "how the hell did that happen" I have a sharper picture of him, but I liked the pose on this one so did a little sharpening myself.

LordV wrote in post #3689135
Excellent start- love the last 2 shots
brian v.

In your great experience, have you tried slave flashing the background from the macro flash to prevent the black background?

congrats on the lens love the spider shot too.

Bill

Great start with that incredible lens