This is a Madagascan moon moth. When I photograph butterflies and moths, I pay particular attention to angling the camera so it is as parallel as possible with the plane of the wings. This helps maintain as much depth of field as possible across the entire surface of the insect. The reason we photograph small subjects in nature is because of their remarkable detail; I feel that shallow depth of field where much of the subject is out of focus defeats the whole purpose of macro photography. My settings for this shot were 1/60, f/16, and 3200 ISO, and I shot this from a tripod.
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