First Drone fly hoverfly of 2015 part1

Lord Vetinari

First drone fly hoverfly I've seen this year. Feeding on some sugar/honey syrup on a camellia flower. All focus stacked using zerene.
Brian V.

Stumblebum

Killer set!

Lord Vetinari

Stumblebum wrote: »

Killer set!

Thanks SB :
Brian V.

GOLDENORFE

Spring is on its way

Great series

Lord Vetinari

GOLDENORFE wrote: »

Spring is on its way

Great series

Thanks for the comments Phil- you could be right re Spring :
Brian V.

Tom Foster

Amazing shots! How do you manage this? Whenever I try I always end up chasing insects around and never quite getting them to stay still!

Lord Vetinari

Tom Foster wrote: »

Amazing shots! How do you manage this? Whenever I try I always end up chasing insects around and never quite getting them to stay still!

Thanks Tom for the comments.

Coldish temperatures and bribery work well together. I'd put some sugar/honey syrup on the camellia flower so the drone was busy feeding and took no notice of what I was up to (as long as I was fairly careful)

Tom Foster

Lord Vetinari wrote: »

Thanks Tom for the comments.

Coldish temperatures and bribery work well together. I'd put some sugar/honey syrup on the camellia flower so the drone was busy feeding and took no notice of what I was up to (as long as I was fairly careful)

Ah, very smart! That way everyone is happy too I suppose! Guess you need a very still day too!

Lord Vetinari

Tom Foster wrote: »

Ah, very smart! That way everyone is happy too I suppose! Guess you need a very still day too!

Just need it to be sunny for this to work in Winter time. I was actually holding the flower in my left hand and resting the lens on the same hand to stabilise everything. You can see my fingers in #1
Brian v.

Cavalier

Great set (as usual). I can't believe these are taken without tripod - you have very steady hands!

Lord Vetinari

Cavalier wrote: »

Great set (as usual). I can't believe these are taken without tripod - you have very steady hands!

Thanks Jo - Guess I do have fairly steady hands, But it is actually fairly stable holding the camera one handed- and resting the lens on the hand holding whatever the subject is sitting on. It mechanically links the camera to the subject which is actually a more stable situation than on a tripod for outdoors macro.
Brian v.