Hoverfly Hovering
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Hoverfly Hovering
I sat by this bush all afternoon attempting to catch hoverflies hovering. Must be better things to do on a Saturday afternoon. However, out of about 20 million shots and my eyes that now look like this these two are about the best which are not brilliant but but my stiff body is pretty pleased with them - even though they are somewhat blurred. Will try this again in about 2 years time.
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Re: Hoverfly Hovering
You seem to be slow to loosen up!missgecko wrote:my stiff body is pretty pleased with them - even though they are somewhat blurred. Will try this again in about 2 years time.
Harold
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Shots like this are difficult at best for me but I notice that it seems you were focusing more on the body (abdomen) of the fly, leaving the head to chance with DOF. Someone once told me to always focus on the "eyes" when photographing insects (in this instance, a Syrphid fly in flight, taking a lot of practice and skill to accomplish). Anyway nothing ventured nothing gained as they say, though I think it may have been better with the head/eyes having been focused on primarily. Good shots though just the same. Could I have done better? Doubt it!
Thanks for that Ken. Good points made and I'll keep them in mind when I next attempt flying bugs, or at least hovering. Thank heavens for digital cameras!!!! I'm full of admiration for photographers who used cameras before digital. It must have been a challenge (considering I'm using a camera where I can literally take hundreds of shots, wack them onto the computer and find the best photo). Sorry, got a bit off track there.
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Sam
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Digital is convenient and a real time saver. Redlights, messy and oftentimes stinking chemicals, as a thought are not missed very much but, I am afraid that one day, all of that will be an ancient and lost art.missgecko wrote:Thanks for that Ken. Good points made and I'll keep them in mind when I next attempt flying bugs, or at least hovering. Thank heavens for digital cameras!!!! I'm full of admiration for photographers who used cameras before digital. It must have been a challenge (considering I'm using a camera where I can literally take hundreds of shots, wack them onto the computer and find the best photo). Sorry, got a bit off track there.
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Thanks for that Doug. I've become a bit infatuated with the flowering bush that attracts these hoverflies and just can't help lurking around there with my camera. Hopefully soon it will finish flowering soon and I'll get my life back.
Ken - I must admit I never experienced taking photos the long way. My limited photography history was putting film into the camera, snapping off 24 shots and then taking it to a chemist to have it processed. Hopefully there are people out there who still do it the way it used to be done.
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Ken - I must admit I never experienced taking photos the long way. My limited photography history was putting film into the camera, snapping off 24 shots and then taking it to a chemist to have it processed. Hopefully there are people out there who still do it the way it used to be done.
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Sam,missgecko wrote:I must admit I never experienced taking photos the long way. My limited photography history was putting film into the camera, snapping off 24 shots and then taking it to a chemist to have it processed. Hopefully there are people out there who still do it the way it used to be done.
I do it the not-so-long way, in that I use reversal films and rarely use the additonal stage of prints. I have never used the local pharmacy, only a pro standard processing lab, usually via mail order. I use films of my choice, rather than the free (who knows what) film of some mail order firms who mostly serve snappers.
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Trannies! It's called reversal because development gives a positive, not a negative. E6 is good shorthand, now that Kodachrome has gone, with C41 for print filmmissgecko wrote:Harold, I've never heard of reversal film. Would you mind explaining it for me?
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True, but not strictly functionally so until mounted. Owning a light box makes projection mostly an activity for sharing with a group of people. Annoyingly, loupes for close inspection have the focus set to allow for the thickness of a mount, making the use with strips of film a bit tricky. So far as I know, unmounted trannies are unacceptable for publication.rjlittlefield wrote:Commonly called "slide film", in these parts. But it's made in bigger formats also, like for view cameras.missgecko wrote:I've never heard of reversal film.
Film camera reviews often make quite a point of the viewfinder image being only, say, 95% of the final image on film. It seems to be forgotten that it allows for the edge being covered by the mount.
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