Progression in macro insect photography
For a fun post, I thought I would cover the progression that a macro photography typically makes. This covers both where I have started as well as where I hope to go.
Stage 1
In this stage, you can recognize what insect the photo is of. With these shots, you feel it is extremely cool that you caught the insect on camera. What you miss is that the framing may be awful, the insect is out of focus, and the lighting may be poor.
Here is a good example from when I first bought my camera. You can see that this is a fly, but it is looking the wrong way, is too small for this shot, and should not be centered in the viewfinder. The focus could also be improved.