Artistic Portraits of Tiny Critters

Today I'd like to share some macro photography work I shot with my Canon 450D DSLR camera. For these shots I used a 100mm f/2.8 macro lens coupled with a reversed 50mm f/1.8 lens. I also used a flash with a diffuser. The whole setup looks quite ridiculously large, like so:

The setup is quite weighty and cumbersome to use out in the field, but here's what I captured with this setup.

Close-up of an ant, too bad I missed the focus on the eye.

A profile shot of the same ant.

A caterpillar with a red head greeted my lens :)

Details of the body section of the above caterpillar.

A different species of caterpillar, missed focus again but hey look at the water droplet :)

It looked up curiously at my lens, as it is probably about less than 1 cm away from it :) I like the dreamy portrait of this critter.

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