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Am I looking Terrific

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LILLIPUT - The World Of Small

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Title: Am I looking Terrific Collection: Lilliput - The World Of Small Artist: Avinash Rajendran Edition: 1/1 Portrait of Long horn beetle. Capturing an extreme closeup shot of a long horn beetle was a dream to me. These insects are not common in my area, so its really hard to find them. But this guy came to my garden on a rainy day. I didn't noticed him, he was resting on one of my t-shirt, my mom saw it and made a screaming, then only I noticed him. So, it was a lottery for me. I was using reverse macro technique that time, as I dont have any other equipment for Macro photography. I have captured this little beauty using "Reverse Macro" technique. Its the cheapest method to capture macro photographs. You need a reverse adapter to mount the lens backwards to your camera. The adapter costs around 4-6 $ only. And an additional light source also required, It can be a torch light, built-in flash or an external flash light along with a good diffuser. I used the built in flash as light source. All of my Macro photographs are single images. So I used a narrow aperture for maximum details in output. We can not control aperture from Camera, as the lens is mounted reversely and there is no electric connection/communication between them. After finding the subject, the hardest part is focusing. As we reversed the lens, both auto/manual focusing methods wont work here. So you may wonder, then how to focus, right. Each focal length has its own focus distance. So the only possible way is keeping the focus distance between camera and subject. Its not easy as it says, the distance will be like a minuet point and its really hard to manage the distance. We have to move ourselves front and back to get the particular distance and focus the subject. Then there comes the second hardest step, controlling breath and managing our body. In reverse macro method, we have to go more closer to the subject, so if our breath just touch them, they will fly away, and all the efforts will become nothing. So its very important to control our breath. Also, these insects wont be always on our eyelevel, sometimes we may have to lay down on floor/mud/soil and sometimes, we may need to climb on something to get their eye level photographs. These are the difficulties faced during reverse macro photography. And for reverse macro 18-55 mm lens is the better choice. Captured with Nikon D5300 and 18-55mm kit lens reversed. This is a single image and no stacking or manipulation used.