Two shots from today as I try to sort my best kit option out. Reversed 24 can be a bit of a nightmare in use. At least it had finally stopped raining apart from a mid afternoon thunderstorm. In both instances flash at full power was used, and due to the slightly cumbersome nature of the set up in each instance with the flashguns and bracketry the camera was on a monopod.
The fly was taken with 55 micro + 28 tube and 2x converter. Shown near enough full frame. Shown warts and all ( no NR ) ISO 500 at f16 with Metz flash and diy soft bowl.
Legless the spider, was a quite different tack. 55 micro and tubes and bellows at 150mm ( 6" ) extension. ISO 200 at f16 with SB80-DX on side mounted bracket. Despite the extension I was able to reduce ISO to 200 to get f16 so this has serious advantage over the Fly set up. The spiders body is about 5mm in length to give an idea of its size.
Now all I want is a fairly still day as we had 12mph constant windspeed, and they danced in and out of the viewfinder so getting focus was a major problem.
Don
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