Great Macro Photography for $12.95!!

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hulagirl

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Couldn't wait to share this with you guys! ; Click the photo and it will take you to my flickr page where you can see how I did it! ; It's really cool!
No fancy tricks. ; No equipment. ; This is SOOC, using only the 50mm/1.8.



Editor's Note...
The product that Roni references in her post can be obtained from Amazon.com with THIS LINK
 
A most excellent idea, Roni! ; :)

Here's the Nikon list for you Craig.

[amazonsearch]reverse mount adapter for nikon[/amazonsearch]

The 52mm one works with the 50mm f/1.8 and 18-55 and 55-200 kit lenses.
 
"Tim" said:
thanks for tagging that link, scott. ; 'preciate it!
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It's neat how that works. ; Took me a couple of tries to figure out you only need to use the search term between the tags. ; Very slick.
 
I have another idea! ; Doing it this way, you can't change your aperture at all, obviously. ; But, there are some really nice FD lenses for old film cameras that you could use and then have the ability to manually focus...either wide open or stopped down. ; There are some really GREAT lenses on ebay that can be had for $9.99 or a little more, and it doesn't matter if they are FD lenses because with the reverse lens mount, they are going on backwards anyway. ; You can get some really stellar glass for super cheap, and then have an even more amazing macro lens. ; Still under 30 bucks for the whole deal.

I'm gonna try it. :) ; I'll be sure and let you know how it works!
 
You can also get a filter ring that allows you to mount a lens to the front of another creating a super-macro lens allowing you to get really close to your subject. ; It also allows you to get a super thin depth of field. ; The problem is that by mounting two lenses together, you greatly decrease the amount of light that's getting to the sensor so you need a lot of light on your subject to make it work.
 
This is great news - now I have a use for my old 50mm f/1.4 Minolta lens. ; Thanks for the info.
 
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