Come Fly with me

stevehapp

I havent been able to practice my macro shots of late but this morning I had a go.
Flies are the best to practice on, they sit still for ages.









Any advice and comments gratefully pondered.

Lord Vetinari

Good series - flies do make good subjects - good exposures on them all .
Brian V.

stevehapp

Thanks Brian.

there were a few dragonflies around but whenever i went near them , they took off.

Skippy

stevehapp wrote:

I havent been able to practice my macro shots of late but this morning I had a go.
Flies are the best to practice on, they sit still for ages.

Any advice and comments gratefully pondered.

Some flies are way more co-operative than others.
When you want them to hang around they wont,
when you want them to go away they stay ... go figure

You did well to get three co-operate for you Steve
.... Skippy
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obecanobe

Steve,
Just been doing the same, trying to capture some worthwhile images of flies. I've found two things really useful
1. Go out early in the morning, as soon as you have enough light. I have found the flies will often be sitting on top of leaves waiting to be warmed up and often soaked with dew, depending on the weather. The other benefit is that the wind is usually not an issue early.
2. If you haven't already, look at the live view function on your 40D. I find this to be helpful in terms of accurate focussing if I am using a tripod again aided by the fact the flies tend to stay put for a while.
Hope to see more

stevehapp

thanks skip.

thanks geoff, I will give those tips a go. Cheers.