Sometimes flowers just don’t tell the tale when it comes to macro, so I lucked out and happened upon a bee that had passed on (RIP).  It gave me a chance to get a controlled setup to compare a few things.  Lets first take a long at the true 1:1 macro lens.
The sigma 50mm DG [...]

I just got my 52mm reverse adapter ring and thought it would be good to do a comparison of 50mm lens compared to a real macro lens.  All of these shots were taken on a Canon T1i, 1/160 shutter, and with the use of a bounce flash.
Lets start out with the “real macro” lens, the [...]