Two things I learned from taking pictures of flys is that working at a fixed and anti-shake distance and good lighting were paramount and made life a lot simpler. Tripods are not suitable for shooting objects laying on a flat surface, so I decided I ought to have a general purpose camera mount for macros.

Again turning to the scrap pile and fashioned a "one holer". Since the small diameter LED ring was mounted to a tube (cut from an aspirin or similar plastic bottle) I could use it in both devices. I made the dowel legs a press fit and have some sets of different lengths.

Here's the one holer, the rough cut hole in the white foam provides enough friction to hold the LED ring:

Here's LED light ring.

Here's the stage lit:

Here's a picture of the setup taking a picture of a penny.

And a the resultant macro of a penny the "rays" are the result of the individual LEDs on the ring, more diffusion could eliminate them, but I kind of liked the effect here.

Or you can take two pics and make a stereo pair using a program like Gimp. Judging the amount to move between shots is pretty much a cut and try operation. Two stereos for parallel viewing follow with different separation between left and right pictures