Just give me an hour...

Lord Vetinari

...to sort myself out. A newly emerged and fully dried out bluebottle fly. #2 was focus stacked using zerene stacker using 3 shots. I gather the fly blows up it's head with fluid to break out of the pupal case.

Brian V.

GOLDENORFE

thats how they look before being mantid food

phil

JoshF

What is focus stacked? I'm a newbie and not familiar with this.

Paul Iddon

Great clarity Brian. Really clear.

Paul.

Lord Vetinari

Thanks for the comments

Josh - focus stacking is a way of increasing the DOF by combining multiple photographs taken at different focus depths.
See http://www.wonderfulphotos.com/articles/macro/focus_stacking/ for a tutorial.

Brian v.

IPClark

Love the detail in these shots Brian.

What was the fly on in the second image?, looks very sci-fi.

JoshF

Lord Vetinari wrote:

Thanks for the comments

Josh - focus stacking is a way of increasing the DOF by combining multiple photographs taken at different focus depths.
See http://www.wonderfulphotos.com/articles/macro/focus_stacking/ for a tutorial.

Brian v.

Thanks Brian. I'll have to try that

Mark Edell

very nice!

Lord Vetinari

Thanks Ian and Mark for the comments.

Ian - it was on a pond filter brush that I often shoot raindrops on - I was actually moving the brush slightly to get a better angle on a raindrop when the fly appeared to see what was going on.

Brian V.

tlee

Thanks for sharing these.....thumb