Couldn't quite seem to nail the focus on this guy - maybe the tripod wasn't steady, maybe trying to get through a gap in the foliage, maybe the plain white of the subject gave the autofocus a problem. It was too bright to even consider trying Live View, which I have yet to come even close to mastering.

[eaglem]

It's a White Crab Spider

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It's a White Crab Spider

Thanks for that Eagle. As soon as I read your comment, I remembered an earlier post of mine, of a very tiny spider, which another poster advised was a Crab Spider. The spider in this post is much larger and a different colour, but certainly looks like a crab!!

[Benz3ne]

Misumena Vatia, perhaps. Ballsy little things!

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Misumena Vatia, perhaps. Ballsy little things!

Nice shot, Benz3ne.

[Apet-Sure]

Couldn't quite seem to nail the focus on this guy

When I got my Pentax-F 100mm Macro I had to get used to how razor-thin the DOF was at close focusing distances unless I stopped the lens way down. What was your aperture setting? My lens (and undoubtedly yours) is so sharp that people say you can shoot at f/16 and even f/22 with very little diffraction softening. According to A Flexible Depth of Field Calculator, for a 1.5CF aps-c camera with 100mm lens focused at 1 foot, the DOF at f/8 is 0.08 inches. At f/16 it's 0.16 inches. You get 0.24 inches at f/22. Back away to 2 feet and the DOF numbers go up to 0.39 inches at f/8 and 0.83 inches at f/16.

For macro shots on a tripod I'll often use manual focus.