363: Old Metal Parts

Settings: f/8, 1/180, ISO 100, 50mm Pentacon M42, 49mm extension, 1/4 flash (bounced,) white card, tripod. Tone curve adjustment, sharpen, slight rotate and crop.

362: Presenting A Cake

Settings: f/11, 1/180, ISO 100, P-FA 50mm, 1/4 flash (bounced,) white polystyrene, black velvet, tripod. JPEG straight from camera, cropped to 5:4.

346: Sticky Cupcake

Settings: f/8 (approx,) 1/180, ISO 100, 58mm Helios-44-2 M42, 19mm extension, 1/4 flash (bounced,) cardboard, tripod. Tone curve adjustments, crop to 16:9.

334: Sugar Cavities

Not the dental sort, but featuring here on something liable to induce such problems if abused.
As expected, I couldn't resist seeing what the bubbles in this orange lollipop looked like close up. I stuck all the extension tubes I had (minus the loose one,) on a 50mm lens and propped the sticky lolly in front of a desk lamp.
The first couple of attempts were plagued by flare, so I cut a small hole in a piece of cardboard and stuck it behind the lolly to cut down on peripheral illumination. This way the only light I really needed was shining through the lolly.
The image looked a great deal more orange out of the camera; while I still liked this, I found that pulling the white balance nearly all the way down made for more varied, acid yellow-greenish tones. While unrealistic, I just find them more pleasing.

Settings: f/9.5, 1/1.7, ISO 100, 50mm Pentacon M42, 81mm extension, fluorescent lamp, card, tripod. Colour and levels adjustments.

332: The Speed Selector

Settings: f/5.6, 1/180, ISO 100, 50mm Pentacon M42, 51mm extension, 1/4 flash, metal bowl, black velvet, tripod.

328: Pepper Juice Purses

Not seaweed, but capsicum. The firm pockets of juice on the inner walls of this yellow pepper are very shiny, and are highlighted very effectively by lighting sideways on.

Settings: f/8, 1/4, ISO 100, 50mm Pentacon M42, 68mm extension, 1/4 flash, tripod. Colour and levels adjustment, slight sharpen and crop.

317: Scratch & Shine

A detail from a metal spoon directly under a halogen light, shot very close up. Quite a soft image, but with a ton of tubes and a wide-open lens, it's almost a certainty; also hand-holding the camera doesn't help much.

Settings: f/1.8, 1/8, ISO 200, 50mm Cosinon M42, 83mm extension. Colour adjustment and crop.

287: Diagonal Chrome

Settings: f/4, 1/25, ISO 800, DA 16-45 (16mm.)

279: Acrylic Diamonds

Settings: f/4, 1/250, ISO 100, EOS D30, 50mm Pentacon M42, 8mm extension, 4x starburst filter, black velvet.

274: Glitter Wall

Settings: f.4, 1/125, ISO 100, 50mm Cosinon M42, 9mm extension, tripod. Colour boost, levels adjustment & crop.

260: Coil With Beads

Settings: f/4, 1/180, ISO 100, 58mm Helios-44M M42, 1/4 flash, foil reflector, black velvet, tripod.

257: Sloppy Ink Caps

Coprinus comatus in its squishy phase, captured after prolonged rainfall today.
I intended to take sime photos of these yesterday (when they were all much fresher,) but I didn't have my camera on me.
Lesson 1: Ink caps are very short-lived.
Lesson 2: Might want the camera? Then take it!!
I took some decent shots today, anyway; even if I had to wait until the early evening.

Settings: f/4, 1/100, ISO 400, P-FA 50mm.

256: Stars & Pentagons

Settings: f/4, 1/180, ISO 100, 24mm Tamron Adaptall 1:2.5, 9mm extension, glass, black velvet, foil reflector, tripod. Crop.

249: Slugs In Your Grass

Settings: f/11, 1/180, ISO 200, 50mm Cosinon M42, 19mm extension, on-board flash & foil reflectors. Some PP & cropping.

243: Droplet Shiny Balls

Settings: f/5.6 (approx,) 1/180, ISO 100, 58mm Helios-44-2 M42, 51mm extension, 1/4 flash, black velvet, foil reflector, tripod.

231: Split Sphere

Settings: f/8, 1/180, ISO 100, 50mm Cosinon M42, 48mm extension, 1/4 flash, foil reflector, black velvet, tripod.

197: Worms of the Earth

Fresh from the compost heap, and quite lively.
Look closely, and rows of very tiny, short hairs are visible running down their sides.

Settings: f/16, 1/2.5, ISO 100, 50mm Cosinon M42, 1/4 flash, glass, white cards, copy stand.

193: Mixed Steel Screws

Settings: f/5.6, 1/180, ISO 100, 50mm Pentacon M42, 17mm extension, 1/4 flash, white card, tripod.

186: Glass Reflections

A furious light show of reflections between several glass jars - the flash was cast directly from the right side.

Settings: f/8, 1/4, ISO 100, 50mm Cosinon M42, 10mm extension, 1/4 flash, black backdrop, tripod. Boosted colour, slight cropping.

172: Another Frog

Settings: f/5.6, 1/60, ISO 100, P-FA 50mm, pop-up flash.