I am new to the macro world and took a couple of test shots of a tree seed (no idea what type or name is), these are busy falling in our back yard at the moment.
The picture is minimally cropped, and instead of a tripod, I stabilized the camera and lens on the garden table. I also tried several shots with a bellows extension, and found I could get much closer and more magnification, but was disappointed at the loss of detail.
In post (using PS RAW Editor) I mostly adjusted WB and color balance, but did not have to do much. Actually the more I adjusted the worse it looked, and eventually went back to minimal touch up.
Surprising was depth of field which became really shallow. At f4.0 the dof was about 1mm, which would be impractical in this composition. Eventually I settled on f32 and found sweet spots at iso 400 & 1,600. ISOs 100, 200 and 800 made the colors look very harsh.
Comments and suggestions will be appreciated.