Oversharp insect?

[Overread]

Well I think I am getting a little more used to redynamizer, though I still can't get along with its clarify feature - seems to me to add way too much noise to a shot and also more grainyness to areas of the shot - I wonder because it seems to work fine with my non-macro as opposed to my macro shots - if this is something to do with my method of shooting macro over shooting normal?

well here is the shot along with a 100% crop - any help appreciated, I have the origianl and my edit (photoshop file) which I can e-mail to any interested in helping - thanks:

Taken with Canon 400D, sigma 150mm macro, 1.4 teleconverter, speedlite 580M2 and softbox

f14, ISO 200, 1/200sec hand held

100% crop

link to larger version: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3298/3230197650_b647f6caf1_o.jpg

any comments/crits welcome - thank you

 

[joecoulsonphotography]

That's so cool, I miss my Macro, sold it to fund telephoto purchase. I love how alien insects look up close.

 

[Overread]

Thanks Joe - must have been hard selling the macro!

and now a reedit using my normal methods - I am not sure if it is any better or any worse:
1000 pixel link
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3413/3229347479_f98a04ec25_o.jpg

100% crop@
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/233/3264245116_e026b161a0_o.jpg

 

[joecoulsonphotography]

I like the first one better, too much blue in the second.

 

[Bifurcator]

Cool image!

What are you using?
http://www.mediachance.com/plugins/redynamix.html <-- This?
http://www.mediachance.com/hdri/index.html <-- or this?

Or a different one?

 

[Overread]

The first one - just the false HDR effect - though looking at the latter it seems to also support false HDR creation. So far I am of two minds with the program and I think more experimentation is needed to get the desired results - although I am tempted by its editing features.