Hello everybody, I'm looking for some advice regarding obtaining a black background for a high magnification photo. I know, usually you want to obtain some kind of color there and that works fine by placing something colored behind the subject but what if I want to make it black. I'm mainly referrin...

Wow, the ant is in a convincingly life-like pose (well, it looks life-like to me). I'm trying to do this too (just started tackling it), but as you say "it's hard". Any tips you might share would be much appreciated. Thanks. Sometimes I try to glue/tape/immobilize the subject in a certain position ...

It was a dead specimen and yes the hardest part is to get a lifelike pose. That was relatively easy, specimens with long thin legs are much more difficult, this ant was probably the hardest I've done. http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/userpix/6091_13131430_10201502813610438_4436406652958634378_o...

Beatsy wrote:Lovely! Looks like a tiny dot of a critter, what's the scale?

It's 4:1

Cute furball

ChrisR wrote:Glue? What sort!

"glue them", more like tape or with small paper pieces cut in the right shape, even string, anything really

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Thank you for the answers. The lens is at infinity. I will try flash at second curtain, I thought at it then but couldn't find the setting in the menu, a google search shows that it's a button combination to activate it. I will post my findings. I would have like to find out if the lens is ok so I c...

Help regarding microscope objective