Thanks guys. I just noticed the soft spot on the first fly's eye. Maybe I need to review the technique and fix it up a little in CS5.
In terms of focusing and taking the pictures, I usually do it two ways with either fast fps or the slower one. I move in as close as I can without scaring the bug and focus on the eyes. Then I take pictures as I move the camera forward and backward to get the other parts of the bug in focus. These three flys I used the cameras 8fps and just snapped off. They weren't sticking around long yesterday. Spiders and other bugs like dragon flies you can work slower, but flies, the minute you start moving too close they take off. Make sure you just move the camera and do not focus the lens. It will either enlarge or shrink you subject (due to something with the lens...this may be what they call lens breathing???) which can be tough to fix and stack. That's really all I do. The other think that effects the fps is if there is a flash on board. If using flash, you can only do a the slower fps because the flash can't keep up. Hope that helps.
This is the guy I followed my methods after and his tutorial. He is an awesome macro photographer and has the MP-E 65mm that I really would love to get for stuff like this. He sums it up much better than I would. Once I figure out how to screen shot on my mac, I will maybe write something up.
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