Helpful Posts: Very early morning, I was looking for insects and bugs in the garden! Didn't find any so I went up front, no camera, just my shorts on top of my pajamas! The neighbours will already be thinking that a lunatic lives across the street from them...
I saw a fly. I have nothing with me to catch it so I went inside and got me a fly swatter (David will faint!!!), a bottle of honey, my curly ruler and a tissue paper... I looked and looked for my victim and couldn't find any but I found a spider. It ran away from me, silly bugger! So I went to the other side of the garage, no nothing with me either -- I left my "tools of the trade" at the front yard. I saw a fly!! I went back and he left too. So I armed myself with a fly swatter just in case...<g> ... I found him!!!!! I swatted him and picked him up with the tissue and brought him to my tools and my camera...and started shooting...
My husband came out of the garage...he asked why I was slap seated on the concrete -- I said I will try to shoot a fly I swatted earlier. He laughed...and drove off...
I covered my dead fly with a leaf and securely put the cover of my camera on the tissue and went inside to get more extension tubes...the 20mm and the 12mm to add to my 36mm which is already on my camera with my 50mm lens. Shot a few and processed what I think are good.
I guess you guys will not talk to me anymore because I murdered your friend before taking a photo for remembrance.
P.S. I sang Ave Maria before I flushed him in the toilet...
1 Ruler, 50mm lens, 36mm extension tube
2 I told you he's dead, didn't I ???...
3 Close up...Look he did not suffer very long...
Will you still talk to me, Grahame? David??? -- can you give me a bit of leeway here? I will get used to shooting a live insect when comes summer or something...I have to start somewhere...a dead fly is as good start as any, don't you think???
OK...enough joking...how did I do? I am not happy with my shot because it still has a soft spot at the front...the last shot was done with all 3 tubes under the 50mm lens.
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11th April 2015, 03:07 PM #1
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It is my birthday and what was I doing? C&C
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11th April 2015, 03:12 PM #2
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Re: It is my birthday and what was I doing? C&C
Dearest Izzie,
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!
Bwahhhhhh. You killed it! I do not know much about extension tubes. What was your aperture?
Literally and figuratively! Nice shots.
'Rie
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11th April 2015, 03:21 PM #3
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Izzie, you crack me up! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
I like the detail of the eyes and the wing outline in #1. Good job! Well worth the effort.
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11th April 2015, 03:39 PM #4
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Re: It is my birthday and what was I doing? C&C
He might have played this for you....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBfxl_T6ldgHe laughed...and drove off...
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11th April 2015, 03:58 PM #5
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Re: It is my birthday and what was I doing? C&C
Happy birthday ya nutter
sorry murderous nutter
you are supposed to find them dead not kill them
getting better pal, just keep on practicing, not killing
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11th April 2015, 03:59 PM #6
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Happiest of Birthdays to you Izzie! Wishing you a year filled with health, happiness, and lots of photography!
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11th April 2015, 05:27 PM #7
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Happy birthday
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11th April 2015, 05:55 PM #8
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Happy Birthday Izzie! I have to agree that a dead fly holds still a lot longer than a live one...
But he does look like he's lacking that "spark of life"...
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11th April 2015, 05:55 PM #9
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umm, apart from HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Well they do say you have to suffer for your art - I think no-one explained that to the fly but hey bit like buses - there will be another one a long very soon
Yep DoF is a bugger with macro sometimes its better to back off a bit to take the shot and get slightly more DoF and then crop in than try to fill the frame and get nano mm DoF. With your grown up camera - you have spare pixels you can crop out and still keep a high image count
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11th April 2015, 06:18 PM #10
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What fun, nice captures. Happy Birthday!
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11th April 2015, 06:52 PM #11
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Izzie,
Great story--flies do not live very long anyway. Happy Birthday!
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11th April 2015, 07:06 PM #12
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Happy birthday crazy woman !
What, no selfie of you in your pj's ?
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11th April 2015, 07:09 PM #13
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Sometimes you have to work with a dead insect to get a confirmed identification. I always try to avoid doing it but if there are a good number around, just one doesn't really make any difference to their overall survival.
As an alternative to swatting them try to catch in a jar or use a small net like a child's butterfly net then transfer to a jar and put into the freezer for a few minutes. Make sure they have thawed before trying to get the best camera angles.
Some species, like moths, can simply be chilled in a refrigerator and placed onto a suitable background for photographing before they revive and fly away. Another option is to use nail polish remover in a jar to stun them.
If I do have to kill an insect for identification I always make sure I send the record to a relevant data collection authority.
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11th April 2015, 08:06 PM #14
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Dear Barbara, Marie, Kim, Binnur and John (Shadowman) -- thank you for looking and not crucifying me ...
Marie...better get off that floor or you'll catch cold again and Elvis might leave the building... Oh? his name is Peter??? sorry...
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11th April 2015, 08:08 PM #15
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Re: It is my birthday and what was I doing? C&C
At least we agree on one thing...your first sentence...
Originally Posted by klpurkett
Happy Birthday Izzie! I have to agree that a dead fly holds still a lot longer than a live one... But he does look like he's lacking that "spark of life"... 
good enough...
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11th April 2015, 08:13 PM #16
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Yes, but I promised Grahame, I am going to use my baby camera in these practice shots...I will try both next time but I will see how I go...before I can change lens my objects would have flown away. I do not like changing lens midway through my shots. I will bring three cameras next time...I will have enough macro tubes to put on it (or not)...things we do ....thanks. Originally Posted by marlunn
umm, apart from HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Well they do say you have to suffer for your art - I think no-one explained that to the fly but hey bit like buses - there will be another one a long very soon
Yep DoF is a bugger with macro sometimes its better to back off a bit to take the shot and get slightly more DoF and then crop in than try to fill the frame and get nano mm DoF. With your grown up camera - you have spare pixels you can crop out and still keep a high image count
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11th April 2015, 08:13 PM #17
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Re: It is my birthday and what was I doing? C&C
Thanks Dean... Originally Posted by DEAN01
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11th April 2015, 08:14 PM #18
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OK, now it looks dead
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11th April 2015, 08:15 PM #19
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Nope! that is one thing I need to learn next...selfies...but I am afraid I will believe my own advertisement to the detriment of acquiring my lessons in photography. Thanks... Originally Posted by dje
Happy birthday crazy woman !
What, no selfie of you in your pj's ?
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11th April 2015, 08:17 PM #20
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Re: It is my birthday and what was I doing? C&C
Thanks for these advices...I will put these in my notes...hubby offered to buy me one of those child butterfly catcher thing...it will make a cheap birthday present... Originally Posted by Geoff F
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