Green-Eyed Fly

e6filmusere6filmuser Registered Users Posts: 3,379 Major grins
edited July 15, 2015 in Holy Macro
These flies look very ordinary, pale brown with some longitudinal stripes on the back of the thorax, until you take a close look.

This is what my Schneider HM 40, reversed and giving a FOV 6mm, wide showed yesterday. I did find one last week but the images were not so good.

Camera hand-held, using twin TTL flash.

The images have been cropped by up to about one third.

Harold

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  • StumblebumStumblebum Registered Users Posts: 8,480 Major grins
    edited July 14, 2015
    Very nice! Love the comps! Powerful! On my monitor highlights are bit overwhelming, but not unacceptable. Cheers!
  • e6filmusere6filmuser Registered Users Posts: 3,379 Major grins
    edited July 14, 2015
    Stumblebum wrote: »
    Very nice! Love the comps! Powerful! On my monitor highlights are bit overwhelming, but not unacceptable. Cheers!

    Thanks. The highlights might respond to a little more work but that will have to wait. These were part of a test to try a variation on my lighting regime but I had to back down and use a hybrid. The wet weather curtailed the testing.

    In processing, I went for as symmetrical a composition as I could.

    Harold
  • ThelensspotThelensspot Registered Users Posts: 2,041 Major grins
    edited July 14, 2015
    Harold, nice set. I favor the second shot. The background is toned down to a degree that makes the eyes more of a focal point for me. thumb.gif
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  • e6filmusere6filmuser Registered Users Posts: 3,379 Major grins
    edited July 14, 2015
    Thelensspot wrote: »
    Harold, nice set. I favor the second shot. The background is toned down to a degree that makes the eyes more of a focal point for me. thumb.gif

    Thanks. I agree but that is a matter of chance as to how the subject lines up against the undulating background leaf and the angles and distances involved. At the time, I feel that I am doing well if the subject is framed and in focus.

    Harold
  • Lord VetinariLord Vetinari Registered Users Posts: 15,901 Major grins
    edited July 15, 2015
    Good ones Harold - one of my favourite flies.
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  • e6filmusere6filmuser Registered Users Posts: 3,379 Major grins
    edited July 15, 2015
    Lord Vetinari wrote: »
    Good ones Harold - one of my favourite flies.
    Brian v.

    Thanks , Brian.

    I know, but I didn't know they were that small. Are there any easy recognition characters?

    Harold
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