Pink Spotted Lady Beetle
Most of my macro shots are taken using an 18-55mm lens that came with my first DSLR – the Canon Rebel XT. I have a 10x magnifier that screws onto the front of it like a filter.
This shot was taken with a lens borrowed from my friend Aimee. It’s the Sigma 50mm DG Macro lens. All of the photos in this set on Flicker were also taken with this lens. I didn’t use a tripod or anything, and several of my subjects were quite mobile! I’d like to try another whole day in the woods with it and see what else it can do…
pretty awesome shot! i have heard of the magnifier lenses but don’t know a whole lot about them. sigma is a good name. how close to the subjuect can you get with a 50mm macro?
I was only a couple inches away from this one… but I need to experiment more. And I probably should look for some instructions. There’s a button on this lens: full/limited. What does that do?
it allows you to limit the focusing area to half of what it would be if you used full focusing range.
Hmm… I’ll have to experiment to see if I can figure out how to make that work to my advantage!