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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scott Murray" data-source="post: 424918" data-attributes="member: 9753">Now this is how I go take a macro...I walk around, find a subject, set my settings which may be something like ISO 100-5000, f/2.8-f/40, S/S 1/200 - 1/5000, with or with out flash, with or with out Raynox filter, with or with out diffuser, with or with out flash, and guess what!? Depending on the subject available light and how I feel all these settings produce great results. I do not pixel peep (and I have a D800E) I will enlarge my photo in print as large as I like. All that matters to me is the final product and if I have achieved or captured something I am proud of. I have tried being scientific in macro and guess what, you can't especially with insects as there are too many variables like the size of the bug, how flighty the bug is and how close it allows you to it, how fast or slow it is moving/scurrying. how fast it flies and changes direction, if it jumps on your lens or attacks your diffuser, if other bugs are crawling up your leg and biting you in places that are tender... The list goes on. But this is just me and the way I take photos, I am no where near an expert but just like any other type of photography things change and you need to change and adapt to them... That is what being a photographer is all about, making the most of a given situation and sometimes achieving the impossible.</blockquote>