Greetings everybody, Just registered here. I'm quite a beginner in photography, and I try some reverse-lens macro shots in my free time

Welcome.

If you keep an open mind, I'm sure you can learn quite a bit from the photographers here. Have fun!

... and I'm sure we can learn a lot from you as well... never tried reverse lens macros, so I hope you share how you do it.

Welcome aboard! Tell us about your setup!

Thank you for your warm welcome.

My setup: reversed 18-55 lens most of the time set to about 30mm to get a compromise between magnification and depth of field. Since I'm shooting insects (mostly flies) the best time is at the start of the day, I find them less active.

You can have a look at my Flickr set: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rrikesh/se … 187903503/

Do you really put the flies in the fridge or is that simply a joke?

Serious. Some people will do that so that the fly stays still for a while, which makes it easier to take photographs.

I put my first flies in the fridge. Not joking, if you put them for less than 3 minutes, they usually wake up and fly away after like 10 minutes. I put the fly on an A4 paper and shot them (lighting by an optical slave flash)

But for the more recent pictures, I shot them straight from where they were

Good shots on your flickr.

FWIW, your DOF is independent of focal length in macro shots; it's strictly a function of how small the aperture is.

Bear_Music:
I don't know. From what I've noticed, whenever I get to smaller focal lengths (on reverse lens), I get good magnification, but just some millimetres of DOF...

Welcome to the site.