Got a second hand Tamron 70mm - 300mm that can do up to 1:2 macro. For the price its ok. Considering an investment in a +3 or +4 close up lens.

whats the D40 like? I use a Nikon D50 , and the macro lens i use atm is a Sigma 105mm

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The first one is looking quite good.
I use a variety of Fstops depending on how much of the photograph I want in focus, whether I want to isolate a subject or if I want lots of detail in the whole pic. I also use a variety of different ISO settings aswell - it often depends on light levels for me.
I tend to decided how I want to subject to appear, set my aperture first then set the rest depending on whether it is light, dark, a moving subject etc.
For this one I used a highish F number as I wanted to capture details so chose F22, 1/15", ISO 200. You will notice that you can see details in the whole photograph.



Yet in the pics below I chose lower F numbers to isolate the subject and make it stand out from the background.
This one is F3.5, 1/200", iso 200


Hope this helps a bit. Mind you Scott is the expert on macro photography around here.

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Nice pics Angi. I'm slowly getting my head around it now. Although my macro-ing fun has been delayed slightly as I dropped the lens the other day...

Silly moo does not sum up adequatly how I feel...

it could be worse though. The course focus ring has become unattached, the fine foccus still works and no glass is broken so it may be salvagable...fingers crossed anyway.