Macro wars

[genious_gr]

Hi all,
There seems to be no similar thread so I thought I'd start one.
Here's my first try, a small tarantula (Yea, dont freak out) of the species Acanthoscurria Geniculata, while eating. (Keep in mind that it's around an inch big)
So, gimme your best macro... :-)

[Photo-John]

Good post. Now I'll have to get out the 1-to-1 gear ad see what I can come up with.

[kkraczek]

Hi all,
There seems to be no similar thread so I thought I'd start one.
Here's my first try, a small tarantula (Yea, dont freak out) of the species Acanthoscurria Geniculata, while eating. (Keep in mind that it's around an inch big)
So, gimme your best macro... :-)

This is definitely not the best in macro photography, but this guy's web was blowing all over the place. This is a Spinybacked Orbweaver, and it's totally harmless. Kind of a funny looking spider, huh?
BTW, I'm generally terrified of spiders!

[genious_gr]

well, one more spider macro, this time of a wolf spider. (You guessed it, spiders are my thing :P)

[Photo-John]

You can't just post a shot like this without sharing how you got it? What camera, lensm, settings, etc....

This one is cool. I think I'm gonna have to shoot something that's not a spider. We need some balance in this discussion

[genious_gr]

I'm sorry, I forgot the details... Well, I used my Olympus c50-50 zoom. Probably it was set in macro or super-macro and definately I used the highest possible resolution and .tiff format as I was trying to make a pic for a calendar. (I did get a pic in the calendar and I had uploaded it on the old forums but its not there anymore..)That gave me an original picture of 14Mb and the ease to crop the interesting part and still have a crystal clear image. I have some more macro's like that but I'll let you people try first :-P

[Peter_AUS]

I remember that image genious_gr, it was really nice and I like the lighting even though some others didn't, I remember posting to you at that time.

[paulnj]

telephoto is my style, but here's a spider for ID your spider images are quite cool btw!

yummy grasshopper huh... central AZ was the location

[genious_gr]

That looks like some very fat (probably gravid) wolf spider... But, please dont make this a spider-picture thread... There must be more themes to use macro on... Anyway, I'm the one to post spider pics :-P (Thats my 3rd post in a row that finishes with a :-P, wow)

Edit: If you really want an ID, pay a visit to www.arachnoboards.com You can also visit the place for a nice chill down your arachnophobic spine. :-P

[Sebastian]

He was sitting on my photo backpack, that is the nylon weave you're seeing.

Shot at 1:1 with the Tamron 90mm on a D100, does that make it 1.5:1??

[natatbeach]

still my favorite macro of celery...I don't get the ratio thing but I presume that it would be considered as such since the celery stalk was only about 1.5 - 2 inches in diameter

[JimK]

This is a miniature orchid flower taken with a Canon G1 and a reverse mounted Minolta 50mm slr lens. The view is approx 3/8 inch top to bottom in real life. The whole flower is about 3/4 inch.

[Photo-John]

I actually got to work shooting for this thread, immediately. But this is the first chance I've had to post. Macro is so different from what I'm used to. It's so slow and methodical and I have to approach the subject and look at things in such a different way. But I bought a 50mm macro and 1-to-1 adapter a few months ago and I've been experimenting with it a little. This post is nice because it got me thinking and experimenting again. The hardest thing for me is to use the tripod. I hate getting it out and moving around my subject in tiny increments, trying to set up a shot. And depth-of-field is tough with macro! I think I should have had more for this photo.

Details: Canon EOS-10D, Canon 50mm f/2.8 Macro lens; 1/250th sec @ f/3.2, handheld

[genious_gr]

Can someone explain whats the 1-1 you're all talking about?? I'm kinda clueless about technicall terms (It's all Greek to me :-P)

Nice pics btw...keep it up guys

[Sebastian]

Can someone explain whats the 1-1 you're all talking about?? I'm kinda clueless about technicall terms (It's all Greek to me :-P)

Nice pics btw...keep it up guys

Magnification ratio. 1:1 means that if something is 1/8 of an inch in real life, it will be 1/8 of an inch on the negative/sensor.

[paulnj]

true "MACRO" is the ability to fill the frame with a subject the same size as 35mm film...making it "life size" . on a 10D the image would be large than "life size" (at close focus) due to the sensor size being smaller than 24mm x 36mm(which is the size of 35mm film frames).

[Kokopeli]

I went outside this morning to find this growing outside... Any guess as to what it is?

[JimK]

looks like it's from a night blooming cereus

[Kokopeli]

That's pretty good Jim. I'm impressed!

The cactus is actually some funky hybrid and my dog ate the name stake so I can't telly you exactly what kind it is..

I'll include the other shots I was going to use in the series as clues..

Please excuse the quality of the shots.. I did all the post production work at the office on friday and it looks as if the gamma is off or something else is wrong.

Thanks for playing!
~Brian

[JimK]

It looks to me like a trichocereus. Take a look at this site and see if any of them look familiar.

http://www.desert-tropicals.com/Plan...chocereus.html

http://www.desert-tropicals.com/Plan...pachianus.html