Mothers day Orchid

Photosbykev · Post by **Photosbykev** » Sun Mar 11, 2018 5:32 am

My first venture into some serious macro work and with it being Mothers day there were plenty of flowers around to play with.

This is a small orchid on a window sill lit with ambient light.

Captured with a Canon 5D4 and Canon 100mm macro lens and 65mm of extension tubes. 0.5 second @ f/8.0 iso 100 exposures.

56 raw images taken with the camera lens focus controlled with Helicon remote and stacked in Helicon focus. Minor finishing and resizing in Photoshop.

I've ordered a Nikon CFI 10x/0.25 objective and motorised stage for my next steps into the macro world but I've no idea where I'm going yet lol.

I've no idea what lens tube I should be using to achieve optimum quality with the Nikon objective, so any advice would be welcomed with open arms.

regards
Kev

Photosbykev · Post by **Photosbykev** » Sun Mar 11, 2018 6:50 am

Sorry Admin, I've just realised that there is a beginners macro section ..... my bad

Kev

Pau · Post by **Pau** » Sun Mar 11, 2018 10:39 am

Kev, don't worry, your image fits nicely here.

BTW, welcome aboard!

Photosbykev · Post by **Photosbykev** » Sun Mar 11, 2018 10:58 am

Pau wrote:Kev, don't worry, your image fits nicely here.

BTW, welcome aboard!

Thank you Pau