Frustrated by the limited depth of field in macro shots? Try some photostacking. One of the problems with this technique is that your subject must remain perfectly still while you take a series of shots, changing the focus in small increments after each exposure. Consequently, the images in my galleries of Insects are all of dead animals found around the house and garden or, in the case of the flea, on the cat. I then used some software (ZereneStacker) to fuse the sharp parts of each exposure to produce the final image. If you get up very early in the morning when insects are still torpid, it is possible to photostack live animals, but I haven't had much success - one twitch of a leg and you have to start again.
