r-band number counts for sources in KV450 before (solid black) and after (dotted black) removal of stars, and for the lensing sample (red). Each of these datasets is presented as raw number density; the number counts divided by the area of the sample (indicated in the legend), without any additional weighting. We compare these to the galaxy number counts from the literature compendium presented in Driver et al. (2016). The grey region shows the scatter in the data from their literature compendium, while the solid grey line traces the median of their compendium. Our number counts are in good agreement with the literature, although at the bright end our hot-mode source extraction leads to a dearth of the brightest galaxies (causing the dashed black line to begin to fall downwards at magnitudes brighter than r ∼ 19.5).