Post your best Macro shots

[Kombi]

Rented a Canon 100L Macro for the long weekend . Was pretty excited to try it, took about 300 pictures while walking around the park and my backyard.

But when I reviewed them on the computer, I really didn't get much share worthy.
Most were OOF or at least part of what I thought I captured was.

Any tips or preferred setting people like to set up with there 100L?

couple that I think are share worthy
I would have liked more of the center of the pedal in focus in image below, would stepping this back to f/4 have given me that?

Canon EOS REBEL T2i
ISO: 125
Exposure: 1/2000 sec
Aperture: 2.8
Focal Length: 100mm

Captured pretty much what I wanted here, of course would have been nicer if it was 1-2 days ago when bloom was fresher

Canon EOS REBEL T2i
ISO: 2000
Exposure: 1/2000 sec
Aperture: 2.8
Focal Length: 100mm

[Joel Eade]

[QUOTE=Kombi;71718]
But when I reviewed them on the computer, I really didn't get much share worthy.
Most were OOF or at least part of what I thought I captured was.

Any tips or preferred setting people like to set up with there 100L?[QUOTE]

I am new to macro as well ... one thing I have found is, once you have the shot framed the way you want it, achieve final focus by moving the camera in and out rather than moving the focus ring. I like to move in and snap the shutter when I see the critical part of the image in focus. As already suggested, use as high an f ratio as possible because depth of field is very thin.

[Busted Knuckles]

Green bee, white oleander, hand held 70-200 25mm ext tube zoomed to 190mm. 640/f7.1 200% crop or there abouts. JPG'd down to who knows what.

Who would have thought bees would have taught me the value of a 1dx fps and auto focus needs. These guys were moving, I tried manual & auto focus, single shot and burst. My wife was LHAO watching me and listening to my narrative.

Mike