Macro photography close ups with the Canon 90D & Sigma 105mm

Macro photography close up with the Canon 90D & Sigma 105mm

My current physical limitations (more info here) have pretty much restricted me to ambling around the garden with the Canon EOS 90D.

Much like my last post on here it’s macro shots from the garden that are the order of the day.

The lens I used for this (and for all my macro photography) is the very decent Sigma 105mm f2.8 DGM OS HSM.

I’m not that good

I don’t spend anything like enough time practising and developing the art of macro photography.

The images I have posted previously and in this post are at some distance from perfection.

Light, timing and the correct focus are such important aspects of photography. These aspects are especially important when it comes to macro photography.

I’ve never attempted the art of ‘photo stacking’ – I just never seem to have the time … maybe one day I will get round to trying that.

But at the same time as acknowledging there is room for improvement in all of the pictures I have posted I would also say I quite enjoy taking the pictures and then trawling through them afterwards.

Apples

We have a couple of small apple trees in the garden. This year and for reasons unknown to me we seem to have a plentiful crop developing. I’ve included a few images below in the first picture set. It’s my clear hope that most of these will make it into apple pies or crumbles …

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Future pie contents

Crumble here I come

Soon to be covered in custard

Future pie contents

Apples

Almost ready

Flowers

Next up in this post are selection of images of various plants and leaves. None of them are special but I find some of the detail of these everyday plants fascinating when viewed at this level.

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Insects

I pretty much prefer to stick with a simple definition of an insect rather than look for more complex explanations.

So I would say an insect is a type of very small animal with six legs, with a body divided into three parts and usually it has two pairs of wings.

If you did want to get a little more detailed and wanted to go down a more biology based definition you might say an insect is a member of the class ‘insecta’ which in turn belongs to the category Arthropoda characterised by an exoskeleton, segmented bodies, jointed legs and a three part body plan that consists of a head, a thorax and abdomen.

Insects are also distinguished by having three pairs of legs (Hexapoda), a pair of antennae, and usually one or two pairs of wings in their adult stage, and they possess a chitinous exoskeleton.

So sticking with the simple definition we can generalise and say that small animals such as ants, beetles, butterflies, and flies are all insects.

But there really is so much more to see and investigate when you take a close up view.

Have a look at the common garden insects in the picture set below. Click any image to open the clickable/scrollable gallery and have a look at some of the colours and detail.

Spiders & Things

There’s something pretty fascinating about spiders. There’s something pretty artistic about the way they spin their intricate webs. A walk around the garden in the morning finding webs damp with the morning dew is like seeing a miniature art gallery of the most complex and delicate patterns.

There is no doubt there’s an awful lot going on in the garden … we just need to find the time to look close enough. Click any image to open the clickable/scrollable gallery