First image posted - a fly
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First image posted - a fly
I've been lurking for a while and have been impressed by many of the wonderful pictures in the Forum. Impressed and inspired, so much that I bought a flash and a set of extension tubes for my Sony A900, made a diffuser as suggested by LordV at http://www.flickr.com/groups/macroviewe ... 312315664/ and headed out into our garden to discover a whole new world!
I struggled to get anything in focus at first but my hit-rate is improving and I'm now finding I can think a little more about composition. Anyway, here is a picture I'm particularly proud of. It's a fly on a Marigold stem - hope you like it.
Image details - Sony 100mm macro plus full set of extension tubes which gives almost 2x magnification, F10, ISO 400. Original full frame image was 6048x4032px and cropped to 4596x3064px.
Can anyone ID the fly for me?
David
I struggled to get anything in focus at first but my hit-rate is improving and I'm now finding I can think a little more about composition. Anyway, here is a picture I'm particularly proud of. It's a fly on a Marigold stem - hope you like it.
Image details - Sony 100mm macro plus full set of extension tubes which gives almost 2x magnification, F10, ISO 400. Original full frame image was 6048x4032px and cropped to 4596x3064px.
Can anyone ID the fly for me?
David
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DavieR, this image is excellent in all respects -- composition, colors, lighting, focus placement, sharpness of subject, smoothness of background. I'm struggling to find some opportunity for improvement. Ah, well, there is that bit of debris on the underside of the stem that's a little distracting.
Seriously, I think the Beginner forum is not the best place for this image. With your permission, I will be happy to move it to the regular gallery for Nature Photography. It will get a lot more views there -- and probably somebody who can ID the fly.
--Rik
Seriously, I think the Beginner forum is not the best place for this image. With your permission, I will be happy to move it to the regular gallery for Nature Photography. It will get a lot more views there -- and probably somebody who can ID the fly.
--Rik
Thanks Rik, that is very kind.
I posted in Beginners Macro because I am just starting out but would be very happy for it to be moved.
It was one of those moments when everything comes together and luckily I had had enough practice to get a keeper.
Composition wise, I admit to centering my subjects and cropping later (I have to crop a bit all round as well because of vignetting with my set up).
David
I posted in Beginners Macro because I am just starting out but would be very happy for it to be moved.
It was one of those moments when everything comes together and luckily I had had enough practice to get a keeper.
Composition wise, I admit to centering my subjects and cropping later (I have to crop a bit all round as well because of vignetting with my set up).
David
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Done.DavieR wrote:I posted in Beginners Macro because I am just starting out but would be very happy for it to be moved.
That's a very reasonable approach, especially when you're just starting out. As you get more practice, you'll become able to frame more closely in camera and take a bit more advantage of all the pixels. But for active subjects, I generally leave some spare space around the edges anyway, specifically to allow tuning up the composition later when I have time to make better decisions. For macro work, most modern cameras have plenty of pixels to allow this.Composition wise, I admit to centering my subjects and cropping later.
Opinions vary on cropping. Some people are hard over on the concept that cropping implies bad camera craft; others consider it just another technique in an integrated arsenal, to be thoughtfully applied as appropriate. I'm in the latter group.
I'm still looking forward to seeing an ID on this fly.
--Rik
Superb image.
Post it on Diptera.info and you will get an ID, at least to genus.
My guess is an Anthomyiidae; perhaps Delia sp.
Obviously a male.
Post it on Diptera.info and you will get an ID, at least to genus.
My guess is an Anthomyiidae; perhaps Delia sp.
Obviously a male.
NU.
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student of entomology
Quote – Holmes on ‘Entomology’
” I suppose you are an entomologist ? “
” Not quite so ambitious as that, sir. I should like to put my eyes on the individual entitled to that name.
No man can be truly called an entomologist,
sir; the subject is too vast for any single human intelligence to grasp.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
The Poet at the Breakfast Table.
Nikon camera, lenses and objectives
Olympus microscope and objectives
For my landscapes I hardly ever crop, prefering to get it right in camera but for insects I need some room to play with.rjlittlefield wrote: Opinions vary on cropping. Some people are hard over on the concept that cropping implies bad camera craft; others consider it just another technique in an integrated arsenal, to be thoughtfully applied as appropriate. I'm in the latter group.
NikonUser - Thanks for the link to Diptera.info. I rather naively thought an ID would be a relatively simple matter I never knew that there are so many flies.
Everyone else - thank you for your comments.
David
Wonderful shot.
Think you'll find you get a natural progression as you become more confident from getting focus right- lighting right- compostion right. Just all takes practice.
Re composition I nearly always just try to give bugs more room in the direction they are looking - works in most cases but do still sometimes do minor cropping for compositional or magnifications reasons.
Brian v.
Think you'll find you get a natural progression as you become more confident from getting focus right- lighting right- compostion right. Just all takes practice.
Re composition I nearly always just try to give bugs more room in the direction they are looking - works in most cases but do still sometimes do minor cropping for compositional or magnifications reasons.
Brian v.
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