holy mackerel!!! this is so close i feel i could reach out and stroke the hairs!! yikes! amazing and horrific all at once! what color and detail!! brilliant shot! bravo!
Wow, really impressive close-up ! Can't explain why it's so fascinating to see them so close and so ugly too ! Did you use a specific lens, extension tuve, coverter or was it just re-cropped ?
21 Aug 2008 6:02am
@zOOm: this is the 105mm vr (nikkor) with stacked kenko extension tubes. but it is also cropped by about 40%, as well.
this is really outstanding ! what lense did you use ? from the exif it doesn't seem you used a macro lense ...
21 Aug 2008 11:44am
@Namaki: it's the the 105mm vr (nikkor) with stacked kenko extension tubes, which is a macro. (the exif is always messed up here, for some reason; it shows the effective focal length, not actual lens focal length).
Wow that is close. I like the tight shot of this macro and the shadow of the attennae. If this bug had fleas we could see them.
My goal is to get familiar and use extension tubes (after I get one and my macro lens) Great shot here.