Aphid

Thanks for looking.

I very much like this picture, and apreciate the difficulty in taking such a small subject. This is wonderfully done. I suspect that you are right on the limit of your equipment, it looks as if you have used extention tubes or cropped quite tightly, either way the resolution of this picture seems to be at its limit. Perhaps you are getting diffraction problems because the effective f number of the lens each time you use an extention tube or teleconverter. It would be interesting to see if actuallly lowering the f number would have increased the sharpness? I know it sounds counter intuative but when you are at such high magnification you are right on the limit of the properties of light, and sometimes you have to come right down to f5.6 to prevent diffraction artifacts causing the image to be less sharp. It would be nice to see a seriese if you have it at different f stops.

 

tim

Hi Tim thank you for understanding and appreciating how difficult a shot like this can be.I did use a bunch of extension tubes,also it was taken at f/14 iso 200.Thanks for bringing to my attention to play around with lowering f/stop i dont know if i shot any in a lower f/stop will have to see if so will let you know,Thanks again appreciate it.