but basically it was taken indoors using the macro lens with a ringflash
f/29 at 100 sec it says there but i had the camera set at f/32 at 60 sec i think.
i dialed in a small bit of highlight recovery in camera raw and reduced the clarity a click or two before converting to jpeg in ps.
thank ye for the kind words.
aye the pic was actually too sharp, so i softened it a wee bit.
not often you'll see me complaining about a photo being too sharp
Thanks again.
This photo was not cropped, I think that with this still life stuff there should be no need for cropping, you have time enough to frame the composition in the camera. After all the subject's not waiting on a bus, so it's not going anywhere.