Afternoon All,

Having seen some tremendous macro images on here over the years its something I've not really tried up until now,

I've taken an easy-ish route to start with, a dead fly found in the house during the week and saved, he was about 6mm in length.

I probably need to get into focus stacking as these were shot with one natural light exposure, 100 ISO, 30 seconds @ F29 Pentax 645 with 3 extension tubes and a 45 - 85mm lens @ 70mm.










Improvement suggestions really welcomed please as well as recommendations on Focus Stacking software, I don't mind a small investment but I don't want to spend ideally over £50 at the mo.

Totally agree

As John and Peter suggest SRS would be my first port of call, if your South Devon there is Mifsuds :-

Mifsuds Photographic Ltd.
27-29 Bolton Street
Brixham, Devon TQ5 9BZ

Excellent detail in both images, superb

That's a cracking image Pete

Superb set, well worth the trip

I think my advice would be to do a dry run with a couple of photography mates so to speak, perhaps pick their experience from experienced to very little experience as no doubt you'll get a mix of experiences technically and this will probably eat into your time with each participant and have a good understanding of the camera menu setups of as many manufacturers as poss.

I've run some tuition courses previously and more than one photographer didn't know how to operate their camera without referring to the manual each time and the coloration of ISO / Shutter Speed and Aperture.

Thanks John

LOL see u later Alligator

Thanks Derek, even the little ones would have had the camera, lens and your arm at the same time