I'm posting 3 macro images which were shot using the same technique: removing the lens from the camera; holding it tightly to the front of the camera body in reverse, so that the front optical elements face the camera mirror and the shutter, and the rear optical elements face the object to shoot... Surely, you all know that this is a simple "macro trick", if you do not own (or have with you on the occasion) a macro lens (maybe this technique has a short descriptive term for it in English, but I do not know it...). The camera was "Canon AE-1" borrowed from a close friend, and mounted with a 50 mm lens. The film was "Kodacolor Gold, 100 ISO", lab processed and lab printed. These images, coming from 1994, belong to an era when I was trying to learn photography passionately, and was experimenting with every trick in my pocket. Not much strong images but, Antoonio's beautiful and blurry macro photography inspired me to post them to the Forum. With regards... :)

The second image...

Third one...

The third one is excellent. My dad has a reversing ring for one of his cams, I'm gonna have to play around with it some more..

...thanks for posting these great shots. Really beautiful ones. I esp like that third one, all of those are exellent, but the third one is something more.. If you heave more of these "experimenting" pics, please post. snif My previous cam was Canon AE-1 too, sweet manual AE-1.. .n