Seeing as though everyone's shooting macro...
Chris
www.chrismillsphotography.co.uk
" A Hangover is something that occupies the Head you neglected to use the night before".
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K1 - Sigma 85mm F1.4, Pentax DFA 150 -450 F4.5 / 5.6, Pentax DFA* 24 - 70 F2.8
Samyang 14mm F2.8, Pentax DFA* 70-200 F2.8
K3iii + K3ii + K5iis converted to IR, Sigma 17 - 70 F2.8, Pentax 55 - 300 F4.5 / F5.6 PLM
Quite an effective combo there.
Regards
Karlo
The ladybird is a cracking shot too, especially with all those green fly just waiting to become lunch.
Raspberry leaves and comfrey for me highlight how well this lens renders colour and detail, putting it to great use, I'm delighted to see
Green fly on the feather just shows how much room you have to play with, savage,
Green fly are fairly small, I have a shot somewhere of the facets in a green fly eye, the adult ones are weird, with funny tubes sticking out
Super set, showing us all where we should be headed.
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Going back to the A 50mm, here's one that shows the same problem you had - "which bit shall I focus on?" - when faced with a scrum of emerging
larvae; in this case, ladybirds. These tiny savages fought over and ate nearly every last bit of their egg cases. It was vicious stuff and no holds barred.

Both the *istDS and the K5 are incurably addicted to old glass
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Cheers Derek - Agreed the rendering of the A*200 is something special! I rarely load up the camera with bellows and flash nowadays, my success rate is very low so I tend to stick to the larger "macro" subjects - I can't emulate your technique with anything like the same results


Thanks Karlo and Chris

LennyBloke
Best
Bill
BillWardPhotography
...in the back garden

Cheers Bill - the Spiders were amazing to watch, if you blow gently on them they scatter along the hundreds of tiny threads and then within a few seconds all clump back together


LennyBloke
LennyBloke
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Worcestershire
1. Clump of baby spiders
2. Clump of baby spiders again
3. Ladybird
4. Fly
And a bit of flora...
1. Raspberry dewdrop
2. Raspberry leaves
3. Comfrey flowers
All taken with the K1 mkII plus A*200/4.0 Macro, handheld, no flash or tubes.
LennyBloke