There is a reason that you see slanted photographs. When properly and judiciously used, they are artistic and pleasing. Unfortunately, being so frequently used, they have become no more than a Cliché - .

The problem is not the photograph - it is a photographer who has failed at an artistic attempt and has put his picture into a Xerox copy.

Because of parallax problems with range finders many years ago, Kodak came out with the solution of suggesting that an image always be centered.Therefore - no cutting off the top of heads. It worked, until we decided that there was more power in a composition if the main object was decentered and we went to another kind of balance.

I call cutting off the top of a head poor photography. Someone else may think it reminiscent of a Rembrant.

When researching extension tubes I found that some mounted to the camera body with plastic mounts and others were metal. I have a Nikon 105 micro lens as well as a 200 mm micro. Many use zooms. The question becomes how much weight and how much money do you want to trust to a piece of plastic.

I would like to respond to the issue of the blue tint in the photo.

I realize that certain lenses and camera/sensors have a tendency to depict colors differently than the eye/brain interprets them at the time of exposure. It is similar to shooting with film - Porta will differ from Kodachrome as they will both differ from Ektachrome or a Fuji product.

This is not one of those differences. The most likely culprit is the flash - it has a cool color temperature. In camera, it can be corrected by setting the white balance for a flash temperature or by using a warming filter. My Nikon D300 always took care of the problem using the auto white balance setting.

Post processing usually corrects this problem with little difficulty. LightRoom and Photoshop work equally well. I shoot almost exclusively in RAW and would suggest that even JPEG's be corrected in ACR. Both programs have Adobe Camera Raw and it works rather nicely while preventing the loss of pixels. Pixel editing can be devastating in Photoshop.

The corrections are simple. You can easily adjust temperature and tint by eye or use the blue slider to desaturate the blue. Simple - and only takes a few seconds. Please remember that a correction of white balance my necessitate a change in tone which includes exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, whites and blacks (probably not necessary, but, again, only a few seconds).

I guess the message is simple once you identify the problem. Corection is simple and quick whether it be pre- or post. RAW is great, but is not necessary. The photographer is the person in charge - any decent camera and lens will work.