The texture on his head!! I love macro shots like this... It reminds you that there's such a fascinating little world just under our noses that we sometimes forget to bother looking for.
Is this a prime lens that you're using? I have a 50mm that isn't really for macros, and a 100-300 with a macro setting, but I find both a little fussy when I'm shooting wide open at something close up. I do mostly landscape and portrait work, but I'm wondering if it might not be worth it to get a dedicated macro lens, just to be better prepared for the little things.
yeah my lens is a 100mm 2.8 macro. It might be worth getting a dedicated lens but your 100-300 should work pretty well, no?
in some cases, yes, it does. But it's this antique old Sigma that I'm weirdly attached to — heavy, big problem with backfocusing and it slowly hunts a lot. If I wanted to capture something with movement, freeze a moment: a bug's wings, a dynamic water droplet... I don't know that I'd get the shot I wanted. I just keep looking at people doing really beautiful macro work and I get itchy that I should buy better gear, even though it's not really my area of expertise!