Tilt Lenses are an expensive proposition to most photographers and what if you want to do macro work with one? I have seen plenty of DIY tilt lens gizmos such as these made from different pluming parts:http://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-Tilt-Shift-DSLR-Camera-Lens/ and http://hackaday.com/2009/07/28/making-a-tilt-shift-lens/
Well neither of these do what I really wanted. I wanted to use my existing [...]

I grabbed a few of these over at Shrine Lake on a reversed Sigma 18-50mm with a Canon T1i body. I hope you enjoy:

In this site’s about section we discuss why to use a reverse macro lens, so I thought it would be important to get some comparison shots with real macro lens at a close to the same magnification.
Here is a sample of the difference on a Canon Xt shooting a Canon 100mm Macro vs a Reversed [...]

I took this the other day in a garden of a friend of mine. They were shot a reversed 18-50mm sigma lens and a Canon T1i body. I am fairly happy how the $70 lens turned out as a macro lens.
Rose Pedals:

Bee Collecting Pollen:

Rose Bud: