Kaleem from South Africa, very glad to be here.
I'm not new to photography or macro, but I've never done either seriously enough for me to consider myself anything other than a keen amateur.
Looking forward to seeing what everyone is achieving!
As an intro shot, a happy bee in flight giving...
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for tortoise, fly and leaf beetle : sony a7, laowa 60mm at 1x magnification, flash neewer nw570 at 1/4 strength, iso 100, ss 1/200, f11, on-lens diffuser, handheld single shot
For the rest: all the same except magnification which is 2x, and flash strength 1/2
All raw files are edited in...