Unveiling Nature's Gems: Macro Photography Journey with Dragonflies

Hello guys,

I started taking photos of insects and small animals for more than a week now, I use a kit lens that came with the Nikon d3300, the lens is 18 to 55 mm. I was taking some pretty decent photos before, then I came across a product called reverse ring for lenses. I thought it was some gimmick at first, but it was ingenious, apparently, you don't need a macro lens to take macro photography, you can just use this reverse lens to attach the same lens in reverse to the camera and take macro photos.

but the one disadvantage is you can focus the subject with a camera or lens. You have to manually move your camera to focus and also another disadvantage is you can control your aperture unless you have a manual aperture that you can modify in the lens itself, but I don't have that tho. but there is a small mechanism in my lens where I can make the aperture open by simply holding down that small metal switch-like mechanism, but taking macro this way is super hard.

this flower is very small, I can't even look at its pollens and other details with my naked eye. but I somehow captured a good photo of it, after I took it I was astonished by how the focus was very accurate, normally I would try to focus the whole flower. it would be ideal to focus only on highlights on a bigger flower such as a sunflower, but it was already smaller than my pinky finger. Long story short, taking macro without a proper macro lens is hard, very hard but not impossible, I'll leave some of my other photos while trying to take the photo of this dragonfly, there were a lot of photos that are not in focus or just the exposure was not right.

I can only take a few shots since I have to be really close to this dragonfly when I was taking the photo, I was really lucky even to get these shots, I am still surprised since the noise that camera makes when taking photos didn't spook the dragonfly, I think it was as confused as me when I took the photo.

sorry for the bad editing, I just started editing last week, and I am trying my best to improve, If anybody had any idea of what I am doing wrong, please let me know, that'l help me greatly, I hope you liked this post.

Thank you and STEEM ON!