Newbie trial on reverse macro

[zcf]

Please pardon my lousy skill .

Btw, is this Tiger Beetle?
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[sci80899]

Your pics are abit large for viewing. Shrink them to around 600 by 450 size.

This is more like a plant bug. Tiger beetles are those sliver bluish insects, with big mandibles.

Your pics are quite nice.
The white background looks unnatural though. For the 2nd pic, try get the focus on the eye of the subject.

[zcf]

thanks for the comment, image reduced, will focus on the eye next time.
Shoot it at home that's why white background
I see, not sure what insect is this, with long feeding tube below the body.

[eow]

woah bro! u buy the macro lens liao?

[ortega]

nice insect, good try

[Hoky]

Originally Posted by eow woah bro! u buy the macro lens liao?

I think he used the reversal rings on the 50mm. It's a cheaper option as compared to the macro lens. But have to sacrifice auto focus for this cause?

[zcf]

Thanks Ortega, will try to go out and shoot one day when I got my 5600HS flash back, this time got lucky, can bounce flash the wall with build in flash to get enough lighting.

Originally Posted by eow woah bro! u buy the macro lens liao?

No lah, this was from my last (failed) FZ5 + reverse 50mm marco project, I failed on FZ5 because of not external flash and the aperture value can not be set smaller than f/8, so I can't get shallow depth of view.

Now I try it on KM5D, with the lens set to f/22 or lower, it seem to work better, especially to the depth of view part.

Actually it's still possible to do autofocus, but way too slow and may not accurate.