Learning to Shoot Insects

[Thalweg]

My first effort at macro photography.

 

[Archibald]

Very good, Brent!

The picture is the bumblebee on the left. Consider cropping in on that part of the photo, and when shooting, moving in closer.

 

[jcass]

You did a great job of capturing the image. I agree with Archibald's recommendation to crop on the bumblebee to the left as the primary subject. That would possibly lose the bottom of the blossom and some/most of the background blossom.

Mostly, it seems that the image is over sharpened. The most in-focus parts of the image seem to have sharpening artifacts: the bees "fur" and the in-focus flower petals.