A tame Dolichopid fly

Lord Vetinari

Found a slightly cold dolichopid fly sitting on a sun chair the other morning. All shots focus stacked using zerene.
Brian V.









Crop from above shot


and for the first time, a doli on my finger

e6filmuser

Brian,

All lovely images but it is the third one for me.

Harold

piggsy

That's neat you were able to get a stack out of it. I remember when I tried taking photos of one a while ago - it was so fast that it could literally escape the frame before the shutter sequence finished. Subject in frame - click the shutter. During the time it took for the EFCS to blank and start recording and the preflash to sync up with the TTL RC flash, the fly was able to fly away, dance around the edge of a leaf, and be back in the frame by the time the 1/250 exposure actually finished. Took like 60 goes for him to sit still long enough.

Lord Vetinari

piggsy wrote: »

That's neat you were able to get a stack out of it. I remember when I tried taking photos of one a while ago - it was so fast that it could literally escape the frame before the shutter sequence finished. Subject in frame - click the shutter. During the time it took for the EFCS to blank and start recording and the preflash to sync up with the TTL RC flash, the fly was able to fly away, dance around the edge of a leaf, and be back in the frame by the time the 1/250 exposure actually finished. Took like 60 goes for him to sit still long enough.

e6filmuser wrote: »

Brian,

All lovely images but it is the third one for me.

Harold

Thanks for the comments Harold and Piggsy.

Piggsy - yes they can be very flash sensitive - the ttl pre-flash is enough to spook them.

Brian v.