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I will add 4 pictures. They were taken on film. I had to shoot a test roll, so I kinda blasted through these pictures. These are my favorites of the roll.

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Thanks.

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>>4288131
helicon focus stacked
VS

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>>4288209
in camera (om-5) stacked

I think the in-camera stuff is pretty OK. but helicon allows you to export the stack as an DNG and then edit that in capture one/light room. which is pretty neat.

what is your workflow, macro anons?

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>>4288210
Set my camera to f22 and take a picture if 35mm. Fiddle with the movements on my 4x5 camera until I get good focus, fiddle with my lights until I'm happy, measure bellows for bellows extension compensation, spot meter for exposure, then take the picture. It is extremely cumbersome, but I absolutely love using my 4x5 camera for macro shots.

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>>4288227
What kind of magnification (35mm equivalent) do you get with that? Movements are interesting to me for macro but large format just seems counterproductive.

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>>4288237
If i use a 65mm i can get over 5:1, but i usual shoot from 1:2 - 2:1. Monorail view cameras are pretty cheap

I'm getting a second extension that will give me like 4+ feet of bellows extension, lmao. The bellows extension compensation gets pry extreme at those lengths. 20 inches of extension on a 120mm lens adds an extra 4 stupid to the exposure.

I also need it for my 720mm lens...

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>>4288245
4 stops* You can tilt the front standard forward to magnify your subject as well, but you need a lens with a really good protection to do that.

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>>4288131
some kind of orchid

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>>4288147
nice

>>4288131
hmm, so it's funny. every time I'm out and see some nice little detail I'm all "man, sucks I don't have my macro lens with me".
then when I go out with a macro kit and start shooting I'm always reminded how shit this fucking macro BS is lol
is macro a mental illness? must be. for me it's just short after street photography on the list of mind rot inducing hobbies
also typical /p/ photo thread only shit photos are posted lol wtf is that? spiderwebs? dust? mold/ holy crap it's not even at boomer "technically perfect yet soulless" macro level. it's just typical /p/ troons living out their mental illness. reminds me of that german "am I a good photographer" idiot who posts twigs

>>4289148
Thanks

>>4289219
I mean like... I agree with some of your points anon, but that was kinda mean. Don't be a nigger.

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>>4289219
You know you can use a macro lens for general purpose photography, right? Most mounts have a 50-ish 1:1 macro lens and some zoom that can do 1:3 - 1:4.

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>>4288210
Do you have a tripod? If not, go get a tripod. For macro of live subjects (insects really) I can't say it will help as much, that's coming down to aperture, flash and diffuser, etc. The attached photo for example, I should've actually manually focused that image and tried to get the whole caterpillar body in focus rather than just its head segments.

But for something static like fungi or plants, you should get a tripod in play, and preferably trigger your camera via the bluetooth app and then just work settings until you get a smooth stack. That also means you can do something like a 150 image stack which would let you get every single piece of your image in focus.

>>4289219
Long macro lenses are generally pretty solid portrait lenses. Any 'clinical' aspect to their rendering can always be solved in post or via a filter.

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>>4289560
>Do you have a tripod?
of course I have a tripod. the thing is once I have to bring my tripod I can also take my full frame camera. if olympiss can't do hand held macro then it's useless

>>4289593
Raise your shutter speed.

>>4289602
fuck your mother

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That's why I prefer to shoot plants and flowers. You guys have no fucking idea how hard is to convince woodlouse to pose for you.

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>>4289604
You know, I was going to disagree with >>4289219 but I’m convinced now.

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would using a diffuser like picrelated on a pop up flash work for macro if you have a very small lens?

i have a huge godox flash i can use but this would be way more portable

>>4291421
Maybe. Those will reduce the power of a flash by a lot. You need really strong ass flash for macro.

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>>4291421
>>4291424
picrelated is a reference on lens size

i didn't think macro needed that much flash power?
there was another DIY diffuser that boxed in the light to be more powerful

>>4291433
Does the flash work well when shooting at f22 or higher?

>>4291435
it seems to be bright enough, even further back

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Oh Lawd He Snackin'!

>>4289552
Are gecko eyes the entry point to a new galaxy? And if yes, why the FUCK is NASA not on this shit?

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Got an adapter for some old nikon lenses I have

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>>4291421
Whats the name of the one on the.right? Looks like it could fit mine.

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>>4295503
3 Color Pop up Flash Diffuser
is on ebay and amazon

hi, tourist here
is there any way i could take halfway decent bug and moss pictures in my backyard with a budget of about 50-100 bucks? i have a samsung A53 so maybe something that could attach to that, as the phone does have an inbuilt macro camera but it kind of sucks ass

>>4295782
Find an old macro lens for like 60, and adapt it. Tripod is useful also.

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>>4295967

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>>4295970

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>>4295972

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>>4295974

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>>4295975

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>>4295980
Neat!

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>>4295782
If you can stretch your budget another $100 or do you could buy a cheap old DSLR with kit lens, a reversal adapter ($12 but requires a lens with manual aperture control) or a raynox 250 ($70) and a $5 collapsible diffuser to spread out your camera's built in flash. That'd be a fairly capable kit. Unfortunately the used market sucks right now and old shitty cameras alone are a minimum $100 thanks to snappiness. Diffused flash is everything in macro and a phone just can't cut it.

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does this look too bright / poorly diffused?

testing out macro diffusers for the first time
taken with pop up flash and diffuser on left >>4291421

>>4295503
avoid this it broke instantly when i got it

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>>4297164
versus with dedicated flash and diffuser
(i think flash actually missed the mantis by a bit)

still playing around with flash strength
just trying to determine if the pop up flash is good enough or i NEED the big one

>>4297164
>>4297165
Not too bright at all. The second one has better diffusion, the first looks like it's made of plastic in comparison, it's just way too dark.

is autoISO fine for macro?

im a birdfag i never learned how to ISO because im always on autoISO for birds

>>4297228
Auto ISO is fine for almost everything

>>4297228
If you're lighting with flash exclusively there's no reason to keep your ISO above base level or a little higher, except battery life.

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>>4297169
bought another diffuser, notice any difference between these pics other than brightness?
i think i just need to reduce power of pop up by a bit and they are basically the same

>>4298002
That's a more difficult subject to notice any difference on because the spines are so matte. I can see it a little bit on the green parts, again the non-diffused one looks more like a fake plastic plant than the diffused one, but there's so little of it that is in focus it doesn't grab any attention.

>>4298062
both images were using the same diffuser, sorry for the confusion. only difference is pop up flash vs speedlight.
any suggestions for a good test subject? id use a dead bug but i can't find any.
was thinking coins but they are probably too reflective.

>>4298066
Well that is interesting, my guess would be because the speedlight is presumably firing at a higher brightness it's overpowering the diffuser and creating a hot spot. Or maybe it's set to a more focussed zoom (if it's adjustable) where as a pop-up flash has a fixed zoom that is generally wide enough to cover 28mm equiv.

>>4298067
i have the flash zoom set to 10mm which is the widest it can go
(i read it was best to have it wide as possible for macro)
the speedlight definitely seems brighter and has a much wider blast, i just had both set to auto TTL, still need to play around and adjust strength

to me the difference is not worth using the speedlight, but this was shot at minimum focus distance, so i will have to see how good the pop up flash is at further away subjects

>>4298070
Yeah in terms of the output image the difference isn't going to be great, in fact if you can get the diffuser lit up equally with both then it should be close to identical. One difference worth considering is battery life, blasting away the pop-up flash at full power is obviously going to significantly reduce the amount of shots you can get where as the speedlight has no effect on the camera's battery and has its own power source. Recycle times may also be better on the speedlight, as well as flash duration if you end up shooting something that moves (unlikely for macro though).

>>4298084
in regards to battery life, carrying a few extra batteries is still MUCH smaller and lighter than my speedlight
recycle time would definitely be slower with pop up but i've never felt it was too slow
thanks for the help

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found a new test subject, probably the most scared i've been taking a photo
couldn't get close enough for 1:1 as it would run/jump away

huntsman spider slightly smaller than my hand

i noticed TTL auto flash would overexpose against black backgrounds, should i be using centre metering?

Is there such a thing as a good macro photograph when compared to all other forms of photography?

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I love spring

>>4289219
This guy also called astrophotography "mindrot"

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dead leaf

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Anyone ever try macro photography with a 4x5 camera? It's the sort of turbo autism type of photography I love.

I'm not very good at it, but I have a lot of fun trying, and I'm excited to make large prints of the better ones.

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Here's a "studio" shot I took. It's fun to set up all the lights and stuff. Not very good image...

If you are interested in more controlled macro type photography I would recommend looking into getting fiber optic microscope lights. They are powerful, and you can easily adjust/add modifiers to them.

>>4302188
I haven't; I imagine it produces fantastic results but you'd need a lot of magnification to match even 35mm 1:1. How practical is this? Do you use bellows or something else?

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>>4303521
This was the setup for >>4302189

That is an uncropped scan, and maybe around a 1:1ish.

A 1:1 magnification is 2 x focal length in bellows draw, so not always too bad.

It depends on what you consider practical... I think that using standard movements provides an excellent way to avoid using focus stacking, but often times it ends up being a sort of compromise when choosing what is and isn't in focus. For flatter subjects it is really great.

With enough bellows and a wide angle lens you can easily get to extreme magnifications. A 65mm lens with 500mm of bellows will get you over 6x magnification, but you would need to add 6 stops of exposure compensation...

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behold the power of stacking extension tubes until things get completely fucked

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>>4303743
That would be a perfect subject for a bellows camera. You could set the focal plane to match the gear and take one shot with basically everything in focus.

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Bufotes viridis

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>>4303759
No clue what species this one is, I think its either Rana Temporaria or Rana Latastei

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>>4303759
>>4303761
Ver nice frogman. I took this ages ago, any idea what it is?

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>>4303765
looks like a common toad, location?

>>4303782
The UK so that seems likely. I was reading about them and they can excrete a toxin, I always wondered if that's what the red stuff was on him as I didn't see any cuts, but it turns out that stuff is white.

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I hope you'll forgive some reposts, it feels like bug hunting season is still so far away.

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>>4303791

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>>4303793

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>>4303794

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>>4303791
Do you live far up north or why would you say that?

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>>4299797
Just manually adjust flash output (or exposure bias)

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>>4303952
I was wrong, went for a short walk today and flipped some logs. There's plenty of bugs out. I hurt my leg the other day so I ended up bringing some bugs home to photograph and release so I wouldn't have to spend too much time squatting down.

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>>4304695

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>>4288131

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>>4302185
very nicely lit

is there any alternative for helicon hocus?
>look up free alternative
>someone recommends picolay
>try it out, produces garbled mess
>try to optimize the settings, barely any improvement
>download helicon focus and a crack
>literally perfect result on the first try
I'm honestly impressed enough that I'm kinda willing to pay for it.

>>4305309
why dont you just keep using the cracked version like every other person

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4 spined jewel spider

flash a bit too bright in reflections but happy to see this uncommon sider

>>4306513
Where do you find such a goofy spider? I don't think I've ever seen one like this in person.

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>>4306539
australia of course, this one was just down by the creek

i've also seen a christmas jewel spider
(shot with extension tubes before i got my macro lens)

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>>4305309
Then just buy it, I don't regret the purchase at all
As long as companies offer real purchases instead of crappy licenses I'm willing to give them my money

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>>4306539
I saw similar stuff in central america

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should you always try to be at 1:1?
im struggling to get everything in focus at f8-f11

my lens goes to f22 but idk where diffraction/lighting issues start

don't know whether i should move back or use higher F stop

>>4309175
Magnification depends on your subject and composition, I see no reason to aim for a specific magnification unless you're doing technical/scientific work. In that case you would most likely have the opportunity to do some focus stacking.

>my lens goes to f22 but idk where diffraction/lighting issues start
Give it a go. A lot of learning in photography is experimentation. There are diffraction calculators out there so you can find out exactly when it starts. However having more in focus but a slightly softer image overall can be better than just having a sharp sliver. Try it out and see what is acceptable to you.

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>>4309371
what is this though
looks like jello but i know its not

>>4309756
If I had to guess, I'd say it's the surface of one of those red reflectors for bicycles or something.

>>4309774
Correct, but it's from a van