These are some old film and digicam images from the early days of macro work.
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 | Very Colorful Spider. Olympus C4040 digital, hand-held, macro mode. See link at bottom of page for my other spider... 1/50 at f2.6, 100mm focal length. |
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 | Big Lizard This guy's been in a bit of a scrape, it appears. (Check the tail.) Handheld Nikon 105 macro, Kodak Gold 100 film. |
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 | Bright Yellow Fungus Among Us This bright yellow stuff suddenly appeared around our house last week. The next day it it was already decomposing. Handheld, Nikon SB-28 flash (my new toy), Nikon N90 & 105 Micro lens. |
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 | Short-Lived The is what the fungus looked like about 18 hours later. Handheld Nikon 105 macro, N80, Kodak Gold 100 film. |
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 | Dragonfly Chased this guy around the back yard. The patches on the wings are cool. Handheld Nikon 105 macro. |
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 | Caterpillar Taken at our astronomy club's observing site. I was taking some pix of ants & this guy wandered along. Tripod mounted Nikon N90, Nikon 105 micro. Gil notes: This is the Forest tent caterpillar, Malacosoma disstria. Unlike the Eastern tent caterpillar, it does not make tents. |
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 | Caterpillar & Ants The Caterpillar walked right through the busy ant nest. Amazingly, he wasn't harassed too much by the ants. Note the ants move really fast; I was stopped down to try to get some depth of field. Only a couple of ants were moving slowly enough to not blur. Tripod, N90, 105 micro. |
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 | Skink! Not quite sure exactly what variety. Southern Coal Skink? Handheld Nikon 105 macro, N80, Kodak Gold 100 film. |
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 | Skink # 2 He's living outside our back door... Handheld Nikon 105 macro, N80, Kodak Gold 100 film. |
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Close-up photography is difficult. It requires specialized equipment and a certain shooting technique. I'd suggest you check out John Shaw's Closeups in Nature for an authoritative treatment. (For you linguists: note that FrontPage wants the hyphen, but the book title doesn't have one.)
The short story on technique: The depth of field in close-up photography is very small. Use a tripod if possible, close the aperture as far as you can with available light. If you have a digital camera, be sure to use "macro" mode (usually has a flower symbol). Bracket your exposures.
Spider, Caterpillar 
