Drone fly hoverfly

Lord VetinariLord Vetinari Registered Users Posts: 15,901 Major grins
edited February 24, 2009 in Holy Macro
Drone fly hoverfly series. This one also had found the crocuses.
Brian v.

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  • lispottlispott Registered Users Posts: 101 Major grins
    edited February 22, 2009
    Wow Brian. Amazingly sharp. What's your trick?? Lisa
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  • Lord VetinariLord Vetinari Registered Users Posts: 15,901 Major grins
    edited February 22, 2009
    lispott wrote:
    Wow Brian. Amazingly sharp. What's your trick?? Lisa

    Thanks Lisa :)

    No tricks - just a lot of practice. :)
    Using flash will give sharper looking shots because of the higher contrast, plus I tend to use fairly open apertures to avoid diffraction softening and then get the "missing" DOF back again using focus stacking.

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  • obecanobeobecanobe Registered Users Posts: 278 Major grins
    edited February 22, 2009
    Nice series Brian.
    Glad to see you starting to get the critters back again, although this means it will start slowing down from my end. Grrrrrrrrrrr
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  • Lord VetinariLord Vetinari Registered Users Posts: 15,901 Major grins
    edited February 22, 2009
    obecanobe wrote:
    Nice series Brian.
    Glad to see you starting to get the critters back again, although this means it will start slowing down from my end. Grrrrrrrrrrr

    Thanks Geoff :)
    I'm sure your bugs will be around for a while yet :)

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  • rednblaccrednblacc Registered Users Posts: 25 Big grins
    edited February 22, 2009
    Awesome pics whats focus stacking.
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  • Lord VetinariLord Vetinari Registered Users Posts: 15,901 Major grins
    edited February 23, 2009
    rednblacc wrote:
    Awesome pics whats focus stacking.

    Thanks for looking and commenting.

    Tutorial on focus stacking here http://www.wonderfulphotos.com/articles/macro/focus_stacking/.
    Basically it's taking a series of shots at different focus depths and combining them into one pic.
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  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited February 23, 2009
    Lord Vetinari wrote:
    Drone fly hoverfly series. This one also had found the crocuses.
    Brian v.


    The wings just don't look strong enough to lift the size of the body and head of those Drones headscratch.gif they're boofy looking aren't they.
    I wonder if the smaller Hover Flies just get out of the way at the sight of them rolleyes1.gif

    Love the second one Brian clap.gif ...awesome work .... Skippy :D
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  • Lord VetinariLord Vetinari Registered Users Posts: 15,901 Major grins
    edited February 24, 2009
    Skippy wrote:
    The wings just don't look strong enough to lift the size of the body and head of those Drones headscratch.gif they're boofy looking aren't they.
    I wonder if the smaller Hover Flies just get out of the way at the sight of them rolleyes1.gif

    Love the second one Brian clap.gif ...awesome work .... Skippy :D
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    Thanks for the comments Skippy- Agree re the wings but these look slightly more sensible than bumble bee wings :)

    Yes these hovers will sometimes bounce other hovers out the way but not as bad as some of the territorial flower bees.

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