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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Moab Man" data-source="post: 186914" data-attributes="member: 11881">Your shutter speed is fast enough, and like Dave said, macro has an incredibly shallow depth of field. If your camera were resting against something solid - leaning against a wall, bipod (using elbows), monopod or tripod - I believe the photos would have the sharpness you're looking for. I entirely believe it goes back to the razor thin depth of field and your sway. Do this, find something of the same approximate size as the insects and set your camera on something so that it is the same distance as you were from these insects. Now take the picture using the camera timer so you're not touching it. Focus the same way you did the insects, same iso, and aperture. Now compare the two. I will bet that you find the sharpness you're looking for.Higher number apertures with lots of light is always a good thing to expand that depth of field.</blockquote>