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Time to play with my macro rail

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Published: 08 Jun 2026 › Updated: 08 Jun 2026Time to play with my macro rail

Time to play with my macro rail

Last month i purchased a macrorail from my tax return money :) , but i didn't really have the time yet to play with it .

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Today i have been using it in combination with my remote flash trigger and the godox TT685s flash unit , making it a lot easier to aim your light where you want it .
Although still with a lot of trial and error but there is no need to post black pictures so i 'll stick to the ones that turned out ok .

It was 6:30 in the morning sun not at it's full power and most flowers still closed. I was hoping the wind wouldn't be to much of a problem besides the temperture of 13 degrees Celcius .

But when you sit still outside on a balcony the wind does feel colder, and the subjects do move a lot when you use 5x magnification .

1 ) But we managed to get some nice shots of the flowers from the Erodium 'Bisschops Form' , this one is taken with 5x magnification
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Sony A7IV + Laowa 25mm ultra macro 2.5 - 5 x magnification F8 iso 100 1/125 of camera flash used

2 ) The flower is only +/- 1 cm in diameter, and they flower from May until September. Look friendlymoose@friendlymoose a closer look to the flowers.
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Sony A7IV + Laowa 25mm ultra macro 2.5 - 5 x magnification F8 iso 100 1/125 of camera flash used

3 ) Here you see the flower at 2.5 magnification
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Sony A7IV + Laowa 25mm ultra macro 2.5 - 5 x magnification F8 iso 100 1/125 of camera flash used

4 ) This flower is in a differend stage then the first one, here you can still see the pollen, while they are no longer there in the first flower.
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Sony A7IV + Laowa 25mm ultra macro 2.5 - 5 x magnification F8 iso 100 1/125 of camera flash used

5 )flower of the Delosperma , still waiting for the sun before it will open up.
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Sony A7IV + Laowa 25mm ultra macro 2.5 - 5 x magnification F8 iso 100 1/125 of camera flash used

6 ) Yesterday i posted the raindrops on the Osteospermum ecklonis , here is the center of that flower at 2.5 magnification.
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Sony A7IV + Laowa 25mm ultra macro 2.5 - 5 x magnification F8 iso 100 1/125 of camera flash used

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I'm an amateur photographer from Holland , Husband , father , grand father , manual curator and ... Witness , and also running stress.node

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