Just the one image this time. A Bluebottle

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Unless we get some further warm spells, it could be slowing down.

Just this one from yesterday.

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Great lighting as usual, your images are always lovely and clean
 
Cheers Rob. Appreciated.

With regards to to clean, do you mean clutter free or free from noise? :)

If clutter free, that is a fortunate result of shallow DoF of course.

As for any noise that is apparent, I tend to run a two pass noise reduction in post processing. Even shooting at an ISO as low as 250 can introduce a touch of noise in macro so I run Noiseware on a very weak setting to start off with on the whole image with selective reversal brushing on the main subject and any in focus items such as stamen/leaves etc.. This cleans up the BG and a little on the subject without losing detail on the subject. I then run some sharpening on the subject and then run a further sweep of selective noise reduction, mostly for the BG again.
 
Ahh yup. Down to NR and a bit of sharpening :)
 
What the hell how did I miss this thread the detail and light is amazing, how did you attach the extra layer of diffusion to the softbox?

On mine the second layer is a floating layer so doesn't fill the whole softbox.
 
Cheers Bryn :)

The softbox has an outer diffusion layer and an inner layer that attach with velcro as standard. I just placed a double thickness sheet of packaging foam sheet in between the outer and inner layer, no requirement for velcro or tape. It just sits in between :)
 
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