Before heading out to the German American Steuben Parade on 5th Ave. I took a short stroll through Central Park with my Micro-Nikkor 105mm f/4 AI-S Macro lens and PN-11 extension tube. It’s been a while since I’ve shot macro, so I enjoyed it.

Flower Volcano — Nikon 105mm f/4 Macro AIS & PN-11

My favorite photo of the day, there’s no light like sunlight.

Nikon 105mm f/4 Macro AIS & PN-11 with Nikkor-S 50mm f/1.4 Pre-AI Reverse mounted

This photo needs a little explanation. This little bug is no bigger than 1mm in length. I saw him sitting no the tip of a leaf and challenged myself to see what kind of image I could get of him with what I had on hand. I ended up MacGyvering a flash bounce card out of a business card and some junk mail that was in my bag for some reason. I mounted the card on my SB-600 and then held a 50mm f/1.4 reversed in front of the macro lens. This got me to somewhere around 4:1 magnification which is how you see this shot. Not the prettiest macro shot ever recorded, but I had fun trying to get it.

Nikon 105mm f/4 Macro AIS & PN-11

This fly is somewhere between 1:2 and 1:1 magnification — shot without the reversed lens up front. At the magnification of the previous shot, the fly would fill the whole frame. As the reverse-mounted 50mm cuts the normally excellent working distance of this lens down to almost nothing, it would have been extremely difficult to not scare the fly away had I tried to use it.
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