I know nothing about macro photography; how are photos like this shot?
As in: is it a camera and a macro lens? Or is there some focus stacking and image composition involved? Or perhaps some other approach?
As in: is it a camera and a macro lens? Or is there some focus stacking and image composition involved? Or perhaps some other approach?
In any case, with such a high magnification, the plane of focus becomes very narrow, so they're very likely also doing focus stacking.
And you need a lot of light, so they're probably also using a flash.
Definitely using a flash, you wouldn't get that even side/shadow lighting without either (diffused) flash or other added light source
Which links to https://amateurphotographer.com/technique/macro_photography/...
And that further elaborates (in the Barry Webb section): "a Micro Four Thirds system with a 60mm macro lens [...] also often use between one and three extension tubes and, on occasions, a Raynox close-up lens" (plus a whole lot more info.)