Hopper and spider

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I was experimenting with the MSN-202 close-up lens on the FZ200 today, mainly taking pictures of the millimetre markings on a ruler over and over again. But I nipped out into the garden for a half hour or so between rain showers looking for springtails to photograph for my experiments, but found none. The hopper was the only thing I found. The spider came indoors on some foliage and other little bits and pieces I brought in to photograph indoors and ran on to a tissue, where I photographed it. Although the MSN-202 can provide a lot of magnification on the FZ200 these were right at the low end of what it can do. It is the sort of size I would normally use the Raynox 250 for.

All the shots were f/8 (equivalent to f/29 on APS-C) at 1/1600 sec, using base ISO 100. Illumination used the KX800 twin flash. Post processing was my standard batch process in DXO Optics Pro 10 followed by tweaking of the individual images in Lightroom.

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0817 1 P1970865_DxO LR 1300h
by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

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0817 2 P1970868_DxO LR 1300h
by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

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0817 3 P1180375_DxO LR 1300h
by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

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0817 4 P1970879_DxO LR 1300h
by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
 

Very convincing… all of them!
My pick, #3.
 
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