Hoverfly enjoying pollen bath

PhoneutriaPhoneutria Registered Users Posts: 8 Beginner grinner
edited August 24, 2014 in Holy Macro
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 :D

Steve

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  • Lord VetinariLord Vetinari Registered Users Posts: 15,901 Major grins
    edited August 20, 2014
    LOvely capture- like the angle
    Brian v.
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  • StumblebumStumblebum Registered Users Posts: 8,480 Major grins
    edited August 20, 2014
    Yes, angle is neat and proboscis came out great....but doesn't get the attention right away....once I found it, it looks great!
  • DeeBugDeeBug Registered Users Posts: 487 Major grins
    edited August 21, 2014
    Good first post Steve!

    Davy
  • PhoneutriaPhoneutria Registered Users Posts: 8 Beginner grinner
    edited August 21, 2014
    Lord Vetinari wrote: »
    LOvely capture- like the angle
    Brian v.

    Thanks Brian :D. Having difficulty getting fill flash mastered, need to get rid of these dark backgrounds!
  • PhoneutriaPhoneutria Registered Users Posts: 8 Beginner grinner
    edited August 21, 2014
    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
  • PhoneutriaPhoneutria Registered Users Posts: 8 Beginner grinner
    edited August 21, 2014
    DeeBug wrote: »
    Good first post Steve!

    Davy

    Cheers Davy!
  • GOLDENORFEGOLDENORFE Super Moderators Posts: 4,747 moderator
    edited August 23, 2014
    Good composition , a slight angle change might have altered focal plane enoght to get more face in focus :D

    Higher I so will ballance flash for more background light
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  • IPClarkIPClark Registered Users Posts: 2,355 Major grins
    edited August 24, 2014
    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).
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