Canon EF 180mm f/3.5L USM Macro Lens Sample Pictures

The yellow petals on this Daisy flower look like flames leaping up from the edges of the center. The contrast is strikingly beautiful!

A Praying Mantis walks down a Thistle plant.

A Monarch Butterfly feeds on a red Zinnia flower. This photo was shot in the studio using large softboxes and monolights. How do you get a Monarch butterfly into the studio? You raise them from an egg (or caterpillar). Fortunately, my daughter loves doing this and provides me with the subjects for shots such as this one. One of the big advantages to having a brand new butterfly is that the wings are void of any tattering. The Monarchs are released as soon as they can fly.

The back of this Yellow Daffodil is softly lit and in high contrast to the black background.

This is a closeup picture of a young purple Hydrangea. Extremely soft lighting was provided by a Chimera Softbox.

The elegant Lily - close-up.

A beautiful pink and white flower picture.

A bright pair of Black-Eyed Susans positioned above/below each other are sharply contrasted against the black background. Lighting is from a Chimera Softbox.

Strikingly beautiful, the Crocus ushers in Spring!

Isn't he the cutest thing?! The call of the Spring Peeper is beautiful - and loud. The Spring Peeper in this picture appears ready to jump to you!

A purple and white crocus forms a beautiful artistic shape.

Six symmetrical petals adorn this beautiful blue flower.

An amazingly detailed caterpillar scans its surroundings. One of great aspects of macro photography is that you get to study creatures such as this. What you can see in the full-size picture is that each hair has little hairs of its own. Lighting is from a Chimera XXS Softbox.

Yellow, white and red stand out against the dark green background in this flower picture.

This beautiful white May Apple flower hangs beneath a canopy of large green leaves. May Apples are found on the forest floor - blooming in the Spring.

Black-Eyed Susans make great subjects - and the Chimera Super Pro Plus XXS Softbox delivers great soft light from a Canon Speedlite.

A ring of bright yellow is surrounded by beautiful purple petals in on this flower.

A Monarch Butterfly is captured on a red Zinnia flower in the studio. You will notice that the dimensions of this photo are larger than the camera sensor delivers. When one or more borders of any image are a solid color (especially pure white or black), the image canvas size can easily be adjusted in post processing. Concentrate one filling the frame with the subject matter (to gain the most resolution possible) and adjust the dimensions later.

A green caterpillar clings to a green stem under a white daisy flower. Lighting is from the always-perfect-light Chimera XXS Softbox and a Canon Speedlite.

The Polyphemus Moth is both big and beautiful.

A cute girl poses in her braided pigtails.

A bud on this pink wildflower artistically hangs on its stem.

In stark contrast to its black background, this Red and Yellow Rose is full of color.

A solid black background is one of the easiest backgrounds to create - especially when using flash. Using a very bright flash with a short exposure and narrow aperture can sometimes be all that is needed for a solid black background. I typically use a piece of light-absorbing black velor material behind my subject to insure solid blackness in the background - as exampled in this picture.