messing with macro

[krann]

Messing around with macro lense what are peoples thoughts, can't seem to get them as crisp as I want them.

[OldClicker]

You have the camera sharpness setting on 'soft'. That may be part of the problem. At 300mm, the f/stop of 5.6 may give a DoF that is too shallow.

I like the middle one. Try some crops that de-center it.

TF

[Don Schaeffer]

You have depth of field problems on the first one. Sharpness is very uneven.

[Anbesol]

The metering on the first is f/5.6 - 1/640th, a more appropriate setting would have been f/11 and 1/160th. Depth of field is always minuscule at macro magnification, so very narrow f-stops are frequently required to get any reasonable amount of dof. Most often, you are best off with a tripod for macro shooting, at f/9-16 or the sorts.