A Shady Doli?
e6filmuser
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In my garden there are several Lemon Balm plants which are the home to Green Tortoise Beetles, and Nursery Web and Wolf Spiders. Because of the fairly dense foliage it can be difficult to frame and light the subjects.
Yesterday, I was close to the plants, with my camera and two of my favourite lenses. About two or three whorls of leaves down, I noticed a rather diaphanous fly. I thought it was one of the smaller Crane Flies. However, on close examination, the antennae were the typical, sort ones of the majority of dipterans.
The fly was facing towards the base of the leaf, giving me no chance of a head-on shot. A side view was fine for the lens but not for flash, a leaf being right in the preferred light path.
Not feeling confident, I proceeded with the lens I had on the camera, my reversed Schneider FM 40mm with FOV 6mm, and managed to get an acceptably well-lit front end of the fly. encouraged, I changed to my Kiron at 1:1 but none of several attempts was well lit.
This is a working distance issue.
So, of the two images, the low power was very dark on the near side and had to have a lot of digital light added.
This fly has an unusual, suede leather nap-like clothing of hairs. I understand that these are the "golden hairs" of a recently-emerged Snipe Fly.
Harold
Yesterday, I was close to the plants, with my camera and two of my favourite lenses. About two or three whorls of leaves down, I noticed a rather diaphanous fly. I thought it was one of the smaller Crane Flies. However, on close examination, the antennae were the typical, sort ones of the majority of dipterans.
The fly was facing towards the base of the leaf, giving me no chance of a head-on shot. A side view was fine for the lens but not for flash, a leaf being right in the preferred light path.
Not feeling confident, I proceeded with the lens I had on the camera, my reversed Schneider FM 40mm with FOV 6mm, and managed to get an acceptably well-lit front end of the fly. encouraged, I changed to my Kiron at 1:1 but none of several attempts was well lit.
This is a working distance issue.
So, of the two images, the low power was very dark on the near side and had to have a lot of digital light added.
This fly has an unusual, suede leather nap-like clothing of hairs. I understand that these are the "golden hairs" of a recently-emerged Snipe Fly.
Harold
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Brian V.
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Thanks Brian.
I have relabelled the files.
Harold