Coccinellidae (Lady bird): Macro Photography reverse ring technique

[Nishith Kumar]

Attaching a lens to a DSLR camera backward effectively decreases the minimum focussing distance. The wider the angle of the lens, the greater the magnification: a 50mm lens will provide a rough 1:1 ratio! I don't have a dedicated macro lens so I just bought an ultra cheap reverse ring adapter costing just Rs 230 and attached it to my versatile Canon 50mm 1.8 lens. Though I lost control over aperture & auto focusing but with little tweaking & experimentation, I was able to capture couple of keeper. Here's one of them..many more to come :001_smile:

Camera: Canon 60D
Lens: canon 50mm 1.8 with reverse ring adapter
Aperture: 8.0
Exposure time: 1/320
ISO: 100
Cropped image
Slight sharpening done


-Nishith

[Mrudul Godbole]

It stands out nicely on the light yellow flowers. The water droplets on the petals add to the composition. There is some noise in the background sue to sharpening. Is this a crop? Thanks for sharing.

[Sabyasachi Patra]

With such colours, you need to be careful about the saturation. Oversatuation leads to loss in details in the particular colour channel. Keep on trying.

[Nishith Kumar]

Thanks Mrudul mam & Sabyasachi sir for critique :-)

-Nishith