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Message: <blockquote data-quote="blackstar" data-source="post: 752031" data-attributes="member: 47518">Thanks, everyone.Dangerspouse, your macro rig setup looks great and real pro, but I'm not yet at that level and only wish being soon. BTW, I don't have real macro lenses (yet) and d3500 has such many limitations that using reverse macro actually a very painful and tedious operation if successful: no AF, no aperture control, ... nonetheless, your tips and advice are well taken.Cindy, the main reason to keep aperture wide open in reverse macro is better exposure to get more light. I know there are other pro and con (especially shallow dof), but on my first try I just want to catch macro images (even with thin dof). I reckon that's why those pro macro guys often take 50, 100 shots and focus stack them for a seamless macro image, not just couple shots. As macro effect goes, it's actually not a photography term. It should be more like a "micro (or magnify)" effect as what you can see through a microscope. Just want to verify my reverse setting can make macro shots and go on.In my coin series, I find a fault of my own: instead of moving camera I turn the zoom ring to focus each different shot. Although the focus plane is moved in super shortness, the composition changes respectively AW. That makes the post focus stacking impossible to achieve an ideal result-- it would fail the "align" step. Also I took shots in random order of focusing planes (not from front to rear or rear to front)-- this would make the "enfuse" confused. All this is revealed as I tried focus stacking in Hugin (see pic). I need a focusing rail for good multi-focus shots.[ATTACH]351693[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

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