A close-up lens (or diopter) enables the camera to focus closer than it normally can. While stacking bunches of close-ups can give you some great shots with good magnification, stacking more than 2-3 lenses might not be really worth it.
There is a technique involving reversing a lens to gain magnification. It is sometimes even called “a poor man’s macro”. If you’re a happy camera owner and are interested in macro photography you might wanna check these books: John Shaw’s Closeups in Nature (Practical Photography Books)
or John Shaw’s Nature Photography Field Guide
.Fly’s Eyes
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Another Fly
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Wow, someone likes eating at Mc’Donalds.
And Another….
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Electron Micrograph of Fly’s Eyes
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A scanning electron micrograph of a close-up of a Drosophila fly’s eye. The structure of the eye, similar to many other insects, is termed a compound eye and is one of the most precise and ordered patterns in Biology.
Those things in their eyes looks like spear-heads! Have anyone of you tried touching fly’s eyes? You would probably start bleeding.
Dragonfly (Common Darter)
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Dragonfly (Common Darter)
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Emperor Dragonfly (Anax imperator) male
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Dragonfly (Crying?)
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Poor little guy.. Who did it to you?
Face of a Southern Yellowjacket Queen (Vespula squamosa)
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This one is so perfect, my favorite one! such a beauty…
Blue Banded Bee
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A Solitary Bee’s Eye
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Hoverfly
Jumping Spiders Close-ups
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Human Eyes
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Just look at those strange patters in human’s eyes. Weird, huh? Our eyes are not as solid as I thought they were.
Caterpillar
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What the?? Is this his eyes? Because it seems so 2D.
Frog’s Eye
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Cat’s Eye
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House Ant
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Ant Lion
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“Disco night at the Ant Lion nest!” (comment by GoldenGlovez from Digg)
PS.: If you enjoyed this post, you can find more eye macros here: 20 Incredible Eye Macros (part of them were used in this article)