Today I took delivery of my first "proper" macro lens, a Canon EF-S 60mm f/2.8 Macro USM. Thanks to Brian Price for suggesting this months ago, it has great reviews and is excellent value for the quality images it produces.
Soon after it arrived I took a number of shots, still life,  flowers and spiders. They were all hand held in good natural light but I wanted to make sure the shutter speeds were high as I could get so used 1600 iso.
This meant there was a some noise in the out-of-focus background, although it was not that bad.
On a number of shots I used TTS to soften and therefore Noise Reduce the background while at the same time sharpening the main subject.
Typically I selected the green background, used Radius 2, -300% and Tone+. Where the background had a range of tones I selected the subject tone, used a + percentage and used either Tone+ to blur the background or ticked Shadow Noise.
The various techniques show how versatile the QU editor is when using TTS.
3 samples are shown below and there's more here: http://www.pbase.com/tjm04/macrocanon60a
Using TTS with a negative percentage

Using TTS and Shadow Noise


The spider's (2 different ones) bodies were 10 to 12 mm long (up to a half inch for Fred  )

Terry

Impressive detail. Great photos Terry!

I sure appreciate you and Fred sharing how you use the new features in QIU. It helps in the learning curve. Actually, your posting of the various settings you used when TTS was introduced motivated me to try the editing in QIU. Now any photo that is posted or printed has the QIU touch.

Your willingness to share your expertise so all of us can enjoy the highest quality in photography is admirable. Thank you!

Thank you guys. I think I've bought a good lens 

Been doing metric since studying Physics at school but for normal measurements (mm) since 1970 when my company went metric. You soon learn when all the measuring tools are changed.

Terry

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I also work in imperial, cannot get on with this metric

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Terry,
You are the house expert on measurement systems.   
If I remember right, isn't the Imperial measurement used for measuring Whiskey?
Fred

Terry,
You are the house expert on measurement systems.   
If I remember right, isn't the Imperial measurement used for measuring Whiskey?
Fred
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Fred,

Both Whiskey and Whisky come in 25ml or sometimes 35ml shots from a 70cl bottle here in the UK They used to be 1/6th of a gill 1/3rd of a gill and bottles. 

Terry, I enjoyed your images and I too have just started dabbling with Macro having picked up a 150mm (approx 6" Fred ) sigma f2.8 macro from E-bay.

I have now tried TTS on some of my images and they get picked out very nicely when using sharpen all excepted selected on the background.

The 3 images I'm hopefully attaching have used radius 3 @ 300% and have been taken with a Canon 5DII and the aformentioned Sigma.


The Ferns are F3.5 1/250s ISO 100
The Butterfly F16 1/166s ISO400
The Spiders (sorry Fred) F18.2 1/64s ISO 400

Regards

Mark