Hi all. 

I haven't posted in quite a while.

I haven't shot a lot of anaglyphs this year. Working too much I guess.

I spent some time in my workshop today adapting a pop-up diffuser I have to attach to my de Wijs stereo macro lens. This lens has a focus guide mounted to it that lets you frame the subject and figure out the focus distance. That's important because it is fixed focus, fixed aperture, and that aperture is like f/18 or something. The view in the viewfinder is REALLY dark, and split. It's easier to place the focus guide just in front of your subject to frame it, and not even look through the viewfinder. 

Here's what the lens looks like mounted to my camera, with a different flash setup:

http://www.pbase.com/duncanc/image/122454168/original

And here is what the pop-up diffuser looks like:

http://www.pbase.com/duncanc/image/99442654/original

What I did was to drill and tap a couple of holes in the focus guide near the subject, and bolt a plastic ring (made from the lid to a peanut butter jar with the center cut out) to the focus guide. I then put my pop-up diffuser around the ring. The hole in the ring is big enough to shoot through, and the diffuser lights up very close to the subject and provides nice soft light.

Anyway, After I got the rig set up, I spent some time in the garden, shooting bees, which are some of my favorite macro subjects. I got some good results.

I culled out images with obvious problems, and am having trouble picking out my favorites from the remainder. Can you let me know your 3 favorites, and why you picked them? (and why you rejected others?) I'd be greatful.

Here's a link to the gallery. The originals are all 900 pixels tall, so they're best viewed on a large screen at original resolution:

Bumblebee anaglyphs Photo Gallery by Duncan at pbase.com

Regards,

Duncan C

P.S. I can't seem to post in-line images correctly, so I'm just sending links to the images from my PBase gallery.