All of the above were taken in 5 minutes and within 3-4 feet of each other. The great thing about (semi) macro photography is how much there is easily at hand. Technique is easy. Set the camera to manual focus (usually the closest focussing distance), a wide aperture and “drift” in to focus, shooting as you find something with the right balance of sharpness and blur.

The camera was the Em1, with the 12-40 wide open. This lens has sweeter Bokeh than the 12-100, but is less powerful, giving me 1:3 at half the working distance. With this lens the Bokeh tends to become a part of the image rather than just lost detail.

All of the images are jpeg’s with minimal processing simply because the RAW files I took at the same time, did not offer me anything more than the jpegs except more processing needs. The depth of colour comes from under exposing most of the files by -1 to -1.5 stops, bringing out the rich colour in the highlights at the cost of the shadow areas (expanded dynamic range is often cited as the “cure” for this, but creatively, I like the negative space).