Macro photography is fun, but no one said it was easy! Many of the mini-beasts we shoot are fast-moving and don’t often stay still in the sunlight, which presents a few distinct challenges. Cooler or overcast weather can be an advantage for focus stacking, but perhaps the trickiest aspect of capturing motion is finding the balance between the depth-of-field and shutter speed.
Much like wildlife and portrait photography, the critical focus should be on the eyes (unless we’re getting creative) and usually, apertures of f/5.6 up to f/11 are required for single-frame images, depending on the light available. Bees are great subjects upon which to practice your techniques because not only are they pretty photogenic, but they are also large enough not to require extra magnification to capture images in flight.