I would like to apologize to all of you for having the thought that Macro was pretty easy. I would look at the photos and think shots were 'OK', but could have been better if you had just... Well, my neighbor went on vacation this morning and left her 100mm Macro lens for me to play with.
I spotted a spider on the deck and clicked off a few shots, knowing that since macro was so easy they would be perfect. Well, the depth of field was a lot less than I figured, and most of him/her was out of focus.
So, I went back upstairs to use a smaller f-stop. In that brief few minutes the spider had caught a wasp, so rather than having a nice, flat spider to test the lens on, there was this ball of spider/wasp which was not holding still for me. I stopped down, shot some more and went down to the computer to see how sharp they were. They weren't, probably motion due to the slow shutter speed.
So I ran back upstairs to add a flash to the setup, figuring with more light I could stop the wiggling wasp. Needless to say, my efforts were still not really crisp like the shots I see the "Macro Photographers" post.
So, you all have my apology for thinking the Macro craft was easy. I promise to learn more about Macro before I post in your section again.
