Some autumn macro photos

[motetus]

As it was the first weekend in ages that wasn't rainy and miserable, I took the camera and an uncooperative boy (sometimes I think he was put on earth to prepare me for having children. "I'm bored. I need the toilet. Can we go home yet?") to Healey Dell nature reserve to try out the extension tubes.



The few flowers remaining:







Blackberries don't really look that tasty close up:



and neither do the soggy mushrooms:



Dead bracken:



Water droplets:





Moss:



Some green thistley thing (I'm not a botanist!):



An autumn leaf:



And finally, a tiny little spider which I pissed off a lot by blinding the poor thing with my flash a dozen times:

Comments

[motetus.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Yes, the tubes are a bit of a pain to work with. My trick is to take a dozen shots of the same thing, and hope at least one comes out in focus! These were handheld (though yeah, I'm buying a tripod for this next) with flash for all but the second water drop.

I didn't know you could reverse the lens with the tubes - just tried that now and wow, that gets close in. Off to ebay to get a reversing ring now!