Bug on the Brink

Minolta A1
1/250
f7.1
ISO 100
Oversharpened with Neat Image

I'm not sure if the oversharpening shows up in this smaller jpeg version as much as the full size file, but I think this is a good example of the type of sloppy technique that I often have that really bugs old school purists (pun intended). I really should have been using a tripod (preferably a heavy one with one of those adjustable macro focus tracks for minute adjustments in close focus.) If I had a tripod I would have likely been able to nail the focus on this bug - instead the plane of focus seems to fall just a little behind him on the flower's petal. But I am lazy, and don't dedicate enough time to spend taking and setting up a tripod, and I'm cheap I don't own a really decent tripod let alone one with one of those macro focusing tracks. So instead I end up oversharpening an image in an attempt to get what I didn't in the field. But life is a compromise. I have the free time at night to work on images on the computer, and I generally have very limited time during daylight hours. Sort of a curse for a photographer. But of course this will not always be the case, and trully if I wanted to carve out the time I could. I think an ideal vacation for me right now would be to live in a simple hut (with electricity for my laptop of course) for a week and hike with my camera during the day, and process photos at night by the side of a crackling fire. Ahhhhh, dream on.