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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dangerspouse" data-source="post: 798802" data-attributes="member: 46690">I think you can chalk a lot of this up to my still going through the learning process with this setup. I found, as is often the case with that macro lens at close distances, depth of field often is much shallower than the same f-stop shooting in other circumstances (landscapes, etc.). So that shot, as you see, was at f/16 and even then the back mug is *just* starting to blur. I could have bumped up the power on the strobe and used a faster shutter speed, but this is why I didn't:1. The camera was on a tripod, so I wasn't worried about slow shutter speeds.and most importantly:2. I'm lazy, lol. I had my camera tethered to Lightroom on my computer, and it was much easier to remain sitting and change the camera settings and fire the shutter right from the program. Changing the light output would have required me to stand up, walk to the c-stand on the other side of the room, reach up and manually turn the dial, walk back, sit down, and try again. And maybe have to repeat the process if it didn't come out. Changing the tethered settings took literally seconds, allowing me to make find an exposure setting that gave me a combo that I liked without having to move anything more than my mouse muscles <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="☺️" title="Smiling face    :relaxed:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/263a.png" data-shortname=":relaxed:" /></blockquote>

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