I recently posted on social media a closeup detail of a dead dragon fly I saw laying in the dirt. I marveled seeing the construction of this insect that that I read evolved over 300 million years ago.
Since I posted that, several people commented that I must have a fancy macro lens to get this shot and the truth is it’s just an iPhone shot with a $14 video ring light from Ulanzi.com and a $14 lens kit from Amazon that clips over the the existing lens. Neither one of these links are affiliate links. I don’t know if this is the best choice or not but it’s what I got.
For the dragonfly above I just positioned the iphone on the back looking through the circle to give the subject a nice even bright soft light. Cheap and easy to do! 🙂
When I got the lens kit I played around with textures to see how sharp I could get it. From what I can tell the sharpness is not edge to edge but where it is sharp it has good clarity. I could certainly use some of these images in the background of designs or perhaps as a texture in a 3D art project or something. It was even fun to point the macro at a far away object and get a nice soft focus effect.
Collection of more macro details
It’s crazy how good these are from that setup!
Excellent work! The combo does a great job.