Ugly Bugs Bawl?

These cry out for closer inspection:

Insects

is the second a pic rolf harris

Golf balls?

Similar thing was on Country Tracks the other day.

I thought that moustache looked familiar, Mache.

I missed the Country Tracks programme, Dostaf.

Amateur macro photo.

They (CT) were photographing a particular type of butterfly egg, Jo Anne.

(Which came first - the caterpillar or the butterfly?)

(My sister took a beginners' digital photography course and gave me a detailed explanation of how to take macro photo's, using the 'tulip setting' on my camera. I'd never tried before. I still need practice.)

How can that work Surely the lens cant fix to the camera properly if it's reversed

But bloody gud pics never the less

Kenny - there's a comment from below the article (10/02/12 10:29) that seems to explain it:

'Using a camera lens in the reverse position was known and used well over 60 yrs ago in the time before the development of the modern specialised "macro" objectives. It is based upon a well-known optical principle ... that in the case of a "normal" camera with the lens in "normal" position, the distance between the subject and the front of the lens is very much greater than the distance between the back of the lens and the image formed on the film or CCD sensor. The lens design is corrected on this assumption. However, when doing close-up photography, the distance between subject and lens now becomes very small and can well be less than the distance between the rear of the lens and image. Reversing the lens orientation gives the photographer a better-corrected lens system for this work. With that said, these photos are very nice and demonstrate that the photographer thoroughly understands his equipment.'

jo anne

I did read that part,and he must really know his equipment,but every piece of foto equip,I ever owned would not allow me to reverse my lenses onto the camera body,I have had macro attachments,(filters)but they never had that effect

He must have very special & expensive equipment

I think so, Kenny. I've only been able to find this one photo of the man behind the camera, but no details about the equipment he uses and how. The information might be out there somewhere though.

We will find out some day

just been listening to burl ives on u-tube singing

"the ugly bug ball", av always loved that song.

The Ugly Bug Ball

can't get the tune out of my head now,

thanx again jo-anne.