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I have no experience with technical macro photography. My experience is things like insects, flowers etc. I use a standard on camera flash, a Godox 685, and one of several diffusers. The simplest being a small, inexpensive fabric pop up that slips over the front of the lens. The ring flashes may...

Welcome. This is a friendly place and folks are always happy to share their knowledge and experience.

Thanks, I had some good competition.

Yes, MPB is the well known used camera gear outfit. I have ordered equipment from them and was pleased with the experience. Just for info, Fred passed earlier this year, hence the _RIP add on to his screen name.

An assassin bug doing what assassin bugs do. He wasn't happy about me following him around the plant with my camera. The bee wasn't happy for obvious reasons.

Got another couple shots of an ambush bug. There are so many features on this bug, that having a 3/4 (ish) shot will throw a lot of that outside the DOF. Makes for a confusing image at times. I went ahead and set up the tripod, since he is slow moving, and shot a focus stack. Had some wind...

Got out to Cypress Gardens this morning. Macro was the uniform of the day.

I don't think you should always use ISO 100. Just realize that high ISOs make for noisy images. There are definitely times when it is preferable to have a sharp, but noisy image vs a blurry image with little noise. I do believe strongly that it is counterproductive to set your camera to some...

Even more to the point, are there any of those sticks of dynamite with wings on them falling out of the sky?

Sorry, accidentally clicked the "copyright only" button when saving the jpg.

Why can't these bees spend some time on flowers of a different color? I have a number of nice blue and purple flowers, but no, they have to spend their time on the yellow ones. At least this wasp found something with a little more contrast to light on.

This thread is about a year old. The original poster has not been active here since then. I doubt they will respond. Try doing a "reset all settings" and see if that fixes it. If not, report back and maybe someone else will have an idea. You can also call Nikon customer service. They may be...

4 of the 6 shots were shot at 18mm. If you were at minimum focus distance with these shots, at 18mm you will have far less magnification of the subject than shooting from the same distance and using the maximum focal length of this lens, which is 55mm. Your first jalapeño shot was taken at 18mm...

Firstly, all the shots were sharp (within their depth of field) and had good resolution. This is a good starting point. I notice you choose to shoot many at full wide angle. If you are looking at macro shots, I would choose the longest focal length on a zoom, unless you are using extension...

Well, this one is a little better. Ironically, I got one fly shot this morning. This was it. I assumed it would be out of focus, as the wind was rocking the plant back and forth, and after one shot, a sweat bee came up and scared the fly off. Discovered an ambush bug dining on a sweat bee. I...

Some different plants are starting to bloom. I've been wondering how this plant was going to look after blooming, and what insects it would attract. Since some of the insects that are starting to be attracted to this are very small, I put my extension tubes on my 105 macro. I'm having a little...

The 18-55 was a "kit" lens that was offered with the D3400 and other crop sensor cameras. It was often paired with a 70-300. I purchased a D3400 for my daughter several years ago. It came with both of these lenses, plus a camera bag and memory card, and the kit was on sale, new, for $500. It...

First off, and this is not a criticism, neither of these two images are what I would call closeups. Both pictures have a lot of elements that are in focus. Even with the distance from the subject, and using a wide angle focal length, you are unable to get everything front to back in focus with...

You will also have to hit the down button on the "joystick" pad that surrounds the "OK" button, when you are in playback mode to get the info to come up. I don't see PPT under supported file types in the file upload popup.