Quote Originally Posted by Marko View Post
very good post ericmark!
Thanks I expected some one to tell me I had got it all wrong. Next is to find what he wanted macro for?
This was taken using a D-SLR and reversing ring and this with a microscope using photoshop to combine many images to get depth of field. I hope you agree the reversed lens worked better than microscope which is not really what one expects to happen.
Even when one uses a pre-prepared slide because the area of view is limited one still needs photoshop to combine images and this needed 12 images to get whole of cross section. To give some scale this is picture of prepared slide on standard key board. Sorry to say many of my macro photos although interesting to those connected to subject are not really the sort of photo one would want on ones wall. Close-up is really more eye pleasing and this was take with a 400mm lens with extension bellows to allow bees free passage to water iris but it is not macro. The camera was set up to look at one iris and set on cable release and I read my book in deck chair when bee arrived I took series of about 20 images then selected the best. Idea of chasing bee around the garden just does not work.