Quick whizz with the Macro

Thought I'd have a go with the new to me Samsung/Pentax (Samtax?) 100mm/2.8 macro I recently picked up in the classified. Camera is my venerable *istDS.

Courgette flower unfurling



Lavender



Should have takern more care on the background for the courgette as it's a bit cluttered.

These look a tad over sharpened to me ?
The courgette as you say is too complicated.
Like the colour , form, and composition of the lavender.
Also like the border you have applied.
Good first effort.

Thanks for the comments.

Only did a tiny bit of sharpening on the resized versions, but just checked the DS menu and the sharpness is set to +1 so maybe it's that it. Could also be a side effect of the lavendar being backlit, maybe?

Difficult backgrounds to isolate totally, but worth a play with a wider aperture to reduce dof further.
I'm not seeing sharpening artefacts, but the first may have some sensor dust spots top right and centre left?