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Jul 15, 2010 17:36 |  #1

Hoverfly I managed to capture whilst chasing bees around. Im pretty happy with it considering it was a really windy day.

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Jul 15, 2010 18:28 |  #2

Love the back-lighting!

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Jul 15, 2010 18:32 |  #3

I agree with illy, great light!

Which lens did you use for this?

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Jul 15, 2010 23:33 |  #4

nice shot for a windy day!

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Jul 16, 2010 00:30 |  #5

Like it - lovely lighting
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Jul 16, 2010 01:30 |  #6

Nice shot..lovely backlighting :)

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Jul 16, 2010 02:06 |  #7

I did this using the 18-55 kit lens reversed. You can get some fantastic macro shots with this lens. I bought a $5 reverse lens to body mount and you can get close to 1:1 macro. The above photo is uncropped and the hoverfly is only a little over 1cm long.

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Jul 16, 2010 04:11 |  #8

Jamescookphoto wrote in post #10546363 (external link)
I did this using the 18-55 kit lens reversed. You can get some fantastic macro shots with this lens. I bought a $5 reverse lens to body mount and you can get close to 1:1 macro. The above photo is uncropped and the hoverfly is only a little over 1cm long.

You can get near 3:1 with the reversed kit lens with it set around 30mm.
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Jul 19, 2010 02:19 |  #9

Thanks for the info Brian, I will look into it more. Its hard to manage with such shallow depth of field. I need an older lens with manually adjustable aperture.

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