Cheap Marco Shooting : Reverse Lens Method

[Koji™]

Found 2 insects today.

Dunno what is this insect but it look kinda cool. Majiam like an eagle spreading it's wings.


This one I always get to see them but still dunno what name.

[amiidae]

Originally Posted by Koji™

Found 2 insects today.

Dunno what is this insect but it look kinda cool. Majiam like an eagle spreading it's wings.

What the hell is that ? Nice !!

[Koji™]

Originally Posted by amiidae

What the hell is that ? Nice !!

I also dunno what the heck is this insect. Small but I love it's posture and it's eagle looking pose.

[tridentdiscus]

That's a moth lah, hehe. They are very beautiful to shoot, but being nocturnal they are hard to find.
Good shot Koji, you manage to make it "Arty"

[Koji™]

Originally Posted by tridentdiscus

That's a moth lah, hehe. They are very beautiful to shoot, but being nocturnal they are hard to find.
Good shot Koji, you manage to make it "Arty"

Really? But the wings are like not big big like a moth leh....

[tridentdiscus]

Got small moths mah. In fact there are more moths species than Butterflies.
Some are very small, no bigger than 1 cm to those that have wing span of around 8-10 inches.
Butterflies are more colorful and easier to shoot as they love sunshine.
Shooting moths are more difficult as they are nocturnal and have to use a ultra violet light to lure them.

[Koji™]

Originally Posted by tridentdiscus

Got small moths mah. In fact there are more moths species than Butterflies.
Some are very small, no bigger than 1 cm to those that have wing span of around 8-10 inches.
Butterflies are more colorful and easier to shoot as they love sunshine.
Shooting moths are more difficult as they are nocturnal and have to use a ultra violet light to lure them.

Oic. Basically I just take whatever I can find in the farm. Farm area got tons of weird weird insects.

[graviti]

wa bro, ur technique is reli easier said than done.. but its reli fun!

heres mine on my 550D too.. i knw nuts bout photography so pls paron the lousy pics..

[Koji™]

Originally Posted by graviti

wa bro, ur technique is reli easier said than done.. but its reli fun!

heres mine on my 550D too.. i knw nuts bout photography so pls paron the lousy pics..

Picture if brighter will be better bro. Try higher ISO then control with the shutter speed since this method is all manual and can't use apreture.

Without the reverse lens adpater its not easy to handle both the lens and the body. I went through it and now with the adapter it's so much easier.

[sirwin81]

already upgrade to 550D?? hehehhe

Originally Posted by Koji™

Just recently someone point to me a way to take marco shoots without a marco lens. Tried his method out and surprisingly it work big time for me. Still practising around with this method and trying to get the hang of it.

It's not a new thing but I guess it's fun for people to try this method out on their own camera with detachable lens. Simplty just reverse the lens of your camera and do manual shooting with it.

To apply the reverse lens technique to your photos, you'll need:

* An SLR camera

* Your normal 50mm (or similar) lens

Step One
Remove the lens from your camera.

Step Two
Turn the lens the opposite way and attach it to the body of the camera so the bit that attaches to the camera body is at the front.

Step Three
Keep your hand on the lens at all times. Pulling it back towards the camera body. Otherwise the lens will detached and you'll let light into the camera resulting in overexposed images.
You can also tap the lens to the camera body if you are gonna be using it for a long time.

Note - I have only use this technique on the Canon EOS 550D. I'm sure it will work on alot of SLR camera of other brands as well. I'm using it's basic kit lens of 18-55mm and so far result is pretty good.

The down turn is that your shooting is gonna be all in manual for the lens is not connected correctly to your camera thus all you can play around is the ISO and shutter speed.

This is an example of the experiment test shoot this morning using my 18-55mm lens reversed on a 2cm bug.


Shoot on a piece of frog bit leafs


Shoot of a 1.2cm shrimp with flash


I hope this technique can help people without marco lens like me to take better close up pictures.