Thanks, David.

And thanks, Nicholas too.

Could do, Nicholas.

But.......

It doesn't need it.

IMHO.

Roger.

Thanks, Sry.
It's the sporangium, the spore-bearing capsule, of a moss from the garden.
About a couple of millimeters long...

Roger.

Continuation of the fine-tuning.....

K5, 50 reversed on 200, protractor-aided manual focus (as b4).
Diffused AF280T flash.

Stack of 40 in Combine ZP.
Elements 11.




C&C most welcome.

Thanks for looking,

Roger.

.....discuss.


Roger.

A couple of rough & ready images of my macro set-up.

Reading forward from the K5, which has a Yongnuo sender unit on the hot-shoe.
13mm ext tube.
200mm. f4.
50mm. f1.7, reverse mounted to the 200.
Subject mounted on an insect pin, blu-tak to a lab-lifter for vertical adjustments.
Black paper tube flat-fixed at one end, to ensure blackness of b/g.

Diffused AF280T flash.
Yongnuo receiver unit.
SmallRig magic arm.
Diy aluminium bracket.
Fixed under bellows mounting block to tripod ballhead.







Focus achieved via
1) initial positioning with bellows unit focus rail.
2). A printed protractor fixed to the focus ring of the 200mm.
A blu-tak mounted insect pin indicating a degrees readout.

The nettle image required movements of 1/2 degree on the protractor.

Any comments / suggestions most welcome.

Roger.

Printable protractors here:
https://www.blocklayer.com/protractor-printeng.aspx

Yes Don, they're very efficient at fulfilling the design brief!!

I focus with the ring on the 200mm., Steve.
It's a little complicated to explain, I'll put a shot of the arrangement up layer on........

Thanks for taking the time & the interest shown,

Roger.

Thank you, you're all most kind!

I would say between 6x & 7x, Rob.

I take snaps just for the pleasure of it all, Steve, & I wouldn't know where to start down the road of "making them available".....

Roger.

A stinging hair (trichome) approx. 1.5 mm., of the common nettle, Urtica Dioica.

K5, SMC Pentax M 50mm. f1.7 reversed on SMC Pentax M 200mm. f4.
Auto Bellows M, 40mm. extension.
AF280t off-camera diffused flash.
Stack of 17 frames (@ f5.6 on the reversed 50) in Combine ZP.
PP in Elements 11, copy layer high-pass filter, hard-blended.






Thanks for looking, any thoughts welcome,

Roger.

Thank you all for your kind remarks.

With the coming of winter, I was missing new natural history subjects for my photography, particularly insects for macro.
Lateral thinking struck & I thought to ask my next door neighbour, who is a longstanding fly fishing enthusiast.
With a large collection of flies.
Hundreds of the little fellas!
So I asked to borrow three & the results are above!
Quite an interesting exercise........

Again, thanks for taking a minute to look,

Roger.

All K5, 100mm. DFA Macro.
Bellows AF 280T diffused flash.
Combine ZP.
Elements 11.












Thanks for looking, I'd be interested in any thoughts you may have.

Roger.