Time Machine

The insides of an old little, probably cheap, Russian made, wind-up watch donated by a friend for this purpose and shot for the competition under a single light in an otherwise dark room.

Even with a lens that would go to F32 I had trouble, looking straight on, achieving a good depth of field so I resorted to focus stacking.

So this is a five image focus stack all using :
Pentax K-5 (which I prefer to my K-3 for this sort of shot simply on noise performance.)
Fitted with the Samsung equivalent of the DFA 100 Macro.
1/5 sec, F18 & ISO200

Shot raw, processed in LR5 with the focus stack handled by Helicon Focus 6. It was then resized for the web in PSE14 although it has not been cropped and is therefore as framed for the shot.

It is only when it is blown up this big that I can see a hint of rust on the black arms above the movement.

Glyn