Macro Photography

Sometimes when the sun is high and the good light is gone, it is time to look around at the small things that are all around all the time.  There are a lot of techniques for taking good macro shots including the use of macro lighting, the use of tripods, etc.  Most of what I do is with natural light and hand held so as a result, my keeper rater is not as high it might otherwise might be.  Little live creatures aren't patient enough a lot of the time to allow for the setup of a tripod.
To compensate for that, it is sometimes helpful to increase the iso setting.  To get a broader depth of field, it is also important to decrease the apperature setting.  On many of my shots, I set the iso to 800 and apperature to betweeen 5 and 10.  If there is full sun light, the Iso can be lowered.
Attached are a few pictures of some of the bugs that infest my front yard at different times of the year.