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The suggestions to turn down noise reduction and sharpening sound good to me. As to the overall look of the image, here is another take on it.

This is true, but FP/HSS may not be able to provide enough illumination at fast shutter speeds. The following sequence of images illustrates this. They were captured on a G80 in manual mode and ...

David, are you using manual focus or autofocus? (I use autofocus almost all the time. My hands move around a lot - and I often shoot in breezy conditions -  but the autofocus does a good job all ...

I just measured it as scene width around 80mm, working distance around 950mm, focal length 600mm equivalent. As you reduce the focal length it doesn't let you get closer to any significant extent. ...

I think you did very well for your first attempt. C&C. Some of this is personal opinion, possibly mingling with a bit of personal taste. I think you will probably need to use flash for images like ...

Interesting product. Thanks Sherm.

As you already have the adaptor it is probably worth giving it a go to see if you like using it or not. One other slight advantage I forgot to mention is that when using the adaptor the lens may be ...

I have a Kiwifotos look-alike adaptor (two of them in fact, but I haven't used them for ? a couple of years). With Raynox lenses you can use the spring-loaded lens holder that come with the lens to ...

The Raynox 150 is by far my most used achromat for flash-based photography of invertebrates. It often is the only achromat I use in a session of 300 to 600 or more captures. When I want more power ...

Stopping down doesn't only work with larger subjects. These were all captured using the equivalent of f/22 on micro four thirds, which is the format the OP is using, or around f/28 on APS-C or ...

That's interesting. I never would have thought of using Lightroom like that, but it makes perfect sense now you have pointed it out. (I was expecting something complicated with layers and masks in ...

Thank you. :)

Thanks. Eating I think in the first one. With the second I was surprised to see all the hairs on the wings.

We still have a few flowers in our garden. These were captured last week using natural light with my G80 with 45-175 lens and probably a Canon 500D close-up lens. I used DXO Optics Pro, Silkypix ...

Welcome to the: "Macro/Closeup Thread 17 September 2017" !*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*! Although this is the Panasonic Compact Camera ...

That's a nice capture. And interesting how you have changed it. Would you care to share how you did that?

That's a really nice set of images. Do  you see that sort of variety every time on your walks? (I wish I did.) I particularly like the first one; super image. Did you use a close-up lens?

This thread has (I think - I've only popped in from time to time) been run as a weekly thread for a long time. It may well be best to leave it that way so we all know where we are. However, Malcolm ...

Nice. It reminds me (with just a touch of envy :)) that I hardly ever see moths. The Kodak PixPro AZ522 is a camera I've never come across before. I see 16 mpix and 52X zoom. Is it good?

Predator and prey, always a good subject - when you can find it, which for me at least is not very often. So well done with that. I wouldn't have thought of using the ZS100 for something as small ...