Just thought I'd share a little trick I learned for getting extremely magnified macro pictures without using a true macro lens.
The idea is that you are using the optics in lenses backwards so you don't have to get a specialized macro lens to get high magnification of subjects.
This article gives you the basics behind the technique:
Here are just a few shots I took using the "twin lens reverse macro" method:
(None of these photos have been edited beyond cropping and slight sharpening)
Edited by Ann_A - November 29 2013 at 6:56pm