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Incredible pictures, and fantastic to see the method documented so well.

I'd read about doing the reverse-lens thing but never seen a setup and couldn't imagine how it'd work.

Also, the description of his post-processing is revealing. Great to see how much work goes into pictures like that.

affirmative, i see it pass by about every year since 2013, i still look at them with as much amazement as i did in 2013.

A reverser ring for a e.g. 50mm to do macro is quite common in photography. Extender rings work quite nice too, though depth of field becomes mega-shallow, so for any significant object, you will need to resort to image stacking to get a properly focused subject.

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