Hoverfly enjoying pollen bath

Phoneutria

Thanks for the welcome guys!

I can only upload the one picture right now, I'm obviously missing something here but anyway, the specimen below is a "footballer" hoverfly, of which there are countless numbers of at my local nature reserve.

I missed the focus between the eyes unfortunately but did manage to get that rather meaty proboscis in focus a little!

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated

Steve

Lord Vetinari

LOvely capture- like the angle
Brian v.

Stumblebum

Yes, angle is neat and proboscis came out great....but doesn't get the attention right away....once I found it, it looks great!

DeeBug

Good first post Steve!

Davy

Phoneutria

Lord Vetinari wrote: »

LOvely capture- like the angle
Brian v.

Thanks Brian . Having difficulty getting fill flash mastered, need to get rid of these dark backgrounds!

Phoneutria

Stumblebum wrote: »

Yes, angle is neat and proboscis came out great....but doesn't get the attention right away....once I found it, it looks great!

Thanks stumblebum. Not sure how but I didn't even notice the proboscis untill I ran it through lightroom

Phoneutria

DeeBug wrote: »

Good first post Steve!

Davy

Cheers Davy!

GOLDENORFE

Good composition , a slight angle change might have altered focal plane enoght to get more face in focus

Higher I so will ballance flash for more background light

IPClark

Welcome Steve, excellent first post.

It's not always easy t get the whole face in focus unless you reduce mag, change plane or focus stack due to the extremely narrow DoF.

With regards to background, I tend to shoot at ISO 250 all the time. I find this allows the backgrounds to be much brighter (have a look at some recent posts of mine - not been in the country for a week so will need to go back a few pages).