Very nice work. I have had much the same experience as you with your macro hunting adventures. It is really quite fascinating because you inevitably end up seeing things that you would never see without the help of your camera. I took this with my first digital camera Sony DSC-F505V, and I had a Contax 50mm f1.4 reverse attached to the end. I've found depth of field and proper focusing to be very challenging, but as you say, hours pass very quickly. These are dung flies found in my back yard.
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Woow, real "action" photo :D
Yes, in reverse lensen depth of field is really shallow, I tried this as well with standard 55mm lens, It is good in artistic or abstract shooting of plants or other details but extremely hard to handle when shooting living, fast moving, 3D creatures ;). Thank You for comment!
You're welcome. I haven't tried the reverse-mount macro stuff in a long time. Kind of like trying to use a hand-held microscope to take pictures. I've had the same issue with difficulty of proper focus and decent depth of field no matter which various method I've tried. I'm always amazed by these nature shows that show macro insect shots with complete depth of field of the entire insect when I could barely get one eye in proper focus with depth. : )
The pictures about You are saying now are made using method called focus stacking - You are doing a serie of photos with different focal points and than, using some software like photoshop, You merge all the frames in one which has full focus spectrum. This needs time and some experience but the results are great... Other thing is that this kind of focus stacking images are not made in the real nature but in studio - and the insects are not moving...because they are dead :(.
But using the proper proffesional macro lenses will also gives You much better DOF without catching the insects or spending hours in processing works...