Here's looking at you!

[mkirda]

Pic of one of IPSF's "Strombus grazers".
(Note: Was informed by Ron Shimek that this is not a Strombus sp., even though IPSF sells it as such. IPSF was apparently informed of this, but never responded... Says Ron "It is a columbellid, probably a species of Euplica.")
Snail shell maybe 1/4th of an inch.
This pic taken with reversed 20mm on macro rail.

 

[mkirda]

And here is a crop of just the eyes, output straight from scanner, JPEG setting around 30, so artifacts are artifacts...

 

[mkirda]

Different slide this time, shot with reversed 28-105mm at roughly 1:1.
Crop of schnozz and eyes, again straight out of scanner, compressed to around 30 to keep file size low.

 

[wade1]

Thats some serious closeup! I take it this was with normal film, not slide film?

The first pic is really good. Was it just ambient light?

Wade

 

[mkirda]

Thats some serious closeup! I take it this was with normal film, not slide film?

The first pic is really good. Was it just ambient light?

Wade

Wade,

No, that is slide film, Velvia to be exact, rated at ISO 80 and pushed a stop.
Makes it a little grainier, but gives me more working light.

And, Ambient light? Hah, hah, hah!
No, again. That is an SB-28 on a cord, hand-held about 1 inch from the subject. Shooting with a reversed 20mm stopped down to f32, you need that much light...

The first shot is at 5:1, scanned at 5400 dpi, then resized to 640 wide.
No sharpening needed. :wink:
Actually, no adjustments whatsoever- that was straight out of the scanner.

Regards.
Mike Kirda

 

[wade1]

I sorta figured that was the case... the highlights in color on the shell are too much for ambient and the quality is too much for print.

Nicely done... bet it took a while.

 

[mkirda]

Nicely done... bet it took a while.

Thanks. Nah, not so hard actually when you learn the techniques. The hardest thing is framing: Or sometimes...FINDING THE DANG THING at 5:1.

You can be like... It's RIGHT THERE IN FRONT OF THE LENS CENTERED! WHY CAN'T I SEE IT???

One hint, technique-wise... Use a flashlight to help with the focusing. I'm seriously thinking about buying an LED divelight to help with the focusing.
Probably a clamp and arm to hold it in place too. Sometimes I wish I had extra arms. :wink:

Regards.
Mike Kirda

 

[Wampatom]

Wow Mike. That’s an impressive shot. If you started with 0.25 inches, and them cropped it, the picture with the eyes and snoz must cover about 1mm. It appears that you get at least as much detail with the reversed 20mm lens as I do with the 105mm micro with reversed 50mm combo.