Raw histogram and why does it matter

There is to many to list www.dpreview.com/challenges/Entry.aspx?ID=1160507&ref_=pe_1674010_132618830

The spread of votes on that entry from 0.5 to 5 highlights the issues I mentioned earlier about sandbagging and vote rigging.

Who knows how many of the handful of votes were legitimate.

I would not normally criticize a person photos based on the IQ for the chosen setting used but your lack of understanding what a raw histogram tells you so for this time I am going around my self control on this one.

There is a lot of artifacts that are shown in the image, these are noise in areas where the NR and the process did not remove, the areas that had NR to combat the noise for the exposure that you had chosen. I can see that this was taken using controlled lighting so you could have maximized with ETTR. There is also a lot detail that has been over sharpened to combat the NR done to the image, this also highlighted the noise that was not removed by the NR that was done throughout different areas of the image. If the time was taken to maximins the exposure you could have used it to reduce the noise while also removing the need to apply NR that then would have given you better detail as not need sharpening to create the visual of sharpness
There is also clipping that I can guess is due to the raised iso you had selected so understanding what was in your raw file could have helped you here because we really don`t know what cause this clipping

i always lead by example.

next your going to say i freeze them 😂 i do but take every precaution

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Ive herd it all before theirs nothing you can say other than lead yourself into embracement when questioning my macro skills.

Which part of the critique do you disagree with?

In part he is confirming my earlier observation that your images are 'mushy' in parts.

Now, whether the 'mushiness' resulting from the post processing of the raw data is acceptable to you or not is your choice to make.

extreme macro of living subjects with a 2-4 mm fov 70 stacked images shot in 7 secs :-) extreme macro is whoever can get the shot wins. sorry but your comments have no meaning to a extreme macro shooter. extreme macro shooters of live subjects hve extreme setups to even try and get the shot let alone get a perfect one. imagine getting 70 precise slices that barely overlap in 1.5mm of dof .🤨do you have any idea how difficult that is. there wouldn't be a hand full of photographers in the world that have tried. mushiness well... have you ever herd of movement it just clarifies my live subjects are alive 😂😒

No, the mushiness is clearly post processing artefacts, not motion blur.

elaborate. this should be fun.

After you answer my earlier question:

Which part of Ian's critique do you disagree with and why?

i didn't read it, i have heard it all before , i only listen to critique if an image is posted to prove they know what they are talking about. its my policy . my galleries were my resume on dpr and i did have 750 images up till i was told to take them down.

now that would have looked cool 👌

i will be really quick. none of it . because you dont shoot raw . you dont use NR because your stacking 70 images ,you have to sharpen the detail because the optical position is not fixed and causes focus breathing and you have to rely on software to determine the stacking precision. note you can only stack image perfectly from a front on positing .if you want a 3d effect you need to shoot at 25 deg to the subject and guess what happens ? itas why not many can successfully shoot these images because they have not figured out the correct optical position. (microscope objective) the spiders also have hair on them and you cant stack very fine hair in 70 stacked. images

you can get lucky

If you don't shoot raw, then what are you shooting assuming you are aware that sooc jpegs come from the same raw file that raw shooters use.

imagine trying to stack 70 100 meg images . the whole process takes a full day as it is to shoot 1 of these images its not a push of the button like you imagine. i have shot flies laying live magets and then photographing them while they are jumping around and the tube egs are clear not white and you can see an unborn fly inside . thats very cool i can tell you.