A beauty and a beast

Lord Vetinari

Shots of two flies in the garden. First one is a fairly large muscid Graphomya maculata - almost looks pretty (about 9mm body length). Second one is a Tephritid picture wing fly Chaetostoma curvinerve which also looked quite nice on a top down view but looks rather more vicious from a side view (around 7-8mm body length).

Brian v.



Crop from above









Crop from above

craig_d

Very nice. What's the setup on these?

Lord Vetinari

craig_d wrote:

Very nice. What's the setup on these?

Thanks Craig - these are all 5D mk2/MPE-65/ bracket mounted 430Ex flash with DIY diffuser.

Brian V.

mishal

great shot mr> brian

paddler4

Brian,

All are great, but the last one is really spectacular.

Dan

GOLDENORFE

superb shots, love the last one!

phil

Lord Vetinari

Thanks for the comments - much appreciated
Brian v.

urte

fantastic!! are they stacked? hand held our your "bean bag"?

Lord Vetinari

urte wrote:

fantastic!! are they stacked? hand held our your "bean bag"?

Thanks

was using my bean pole for the first fly. For the 2nd fly I was holding the leaf/stem the fly was on in my left hand - manipilating it to get a reasonable shooting angle (the fly was on the underside) and resting the lens on the same hand.
All have some focus stacking except the 2nd shot of the first fly
Brian V.