Three small subjects

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Captured hand-held this afternoon with a Canon EF mount Laowa 100mm 2X macro lens and a pair of 2X Kenko teleconverters attached to a Sony A7rii with a Sigma MC-11 EF to Sony E mount adapter, and a Yongnuo YN24EX twin flash with flash heads reversed and firing into a 12 inch (30cm) diameter bowl lined with printer paper over aluminium foil, and a single diffusion layer of artificial silk. Magnifications were up to around 8X.

The raw files were processed with, in this order, DXO PhotoLab, Adobe Lightroom and for all except #2, Topaz DeNoise AI, and for #2 Topaz Sharpen AI.

The subjects were probably around 2mm length for head and body. The third subject was scampering around continuously, quite fast.

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1990 1 2021_12_01 DSC04751_PLab4 LR 1300h DNAIc by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

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1990 2 2021_12_01 DSC04745_PLab4 LR 1300h AIS by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

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1990 3 2021_12_01 DSC04753_PLab4 LR 1300h DNAIc by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

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1990 4 2021_12_01 DSC04797_PLab4 LR 1300h DNAIc by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

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1990 5 2021_12_01 DSC04815_PLab4 LR 1300h DNAIc by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

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1990 6 2021_12_01 DSC04828_PLab4 LR 1300h DNAIc (2) by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

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1990 7 2021_12_01 DSC04831_PLab4 LR 1300h DNAIc (1) by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

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1990 8 2021_12_01 DSC04836_PLab4 LR 1300h DNAIc by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
 
Peter123 said:
Fantastic!
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Thank you. :)
Peter123 said:
You've got steady hands.
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Actually, I don't. Have a look at the three short videos in this album at Flickr where I try to keep the camera focused in one place at 6X magnification. As described in the titles, my hands/arms were somewhat supported in each of the three positions. Despite that support you will see that there is a lot of motion side to side and up and down, which continually changes the framing, and motion away and towards the camera, which continually changes where the plane of focus falls. With hands/arms unsupported, especially when stretched out to reach over/around an obstacle, and/or at an awkward angle to get the line I want on the subject, there is even more motion.

Rather than holding the camera steady, It is much more a matter of timing, holding the shutter button half pressed and trying to complete the button press as the focus plane passes through where I want the focus plane to fall. That improves with practice. Despite that, for me at least the failure rate is high, increasingly so as magnification increases, and especially when small subjects are moving around, but persistence can pay off some of the time. And you just have to accept that sometimes it doesn't work out and you end up with no usable shots of a subject even if you had a lot of attempts. That makes it all the more of a delight when it does work out.
 
Very nice Nick #4 & 6 particularly :)
 
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