Bold & subtle? (Myra's at one more conference so possibly a tad dark)

[JBW]

ISO 100 ~ F/16 ~ 1/20S ~ -1.0 Fill Flash

[Wavelength]

Well done

[madcrow]

Awesome image, colour and sharpness fantastic.

[Dave Humphries]

Looks good to me Brian (i.e. not dark)

It all looks natural to me and I think processing brighter could have lost colour/detail in the eye.


If mine, I might have burned the highlight sheen in the lower left corner by 1/3 to 1/2 stop.


Very good DoF, stacked I assume, as I think I see some artefacts on the left wing leading edge and left second leg, but these almost look like shadows, while the rest of it seems perfect (to my half trained eye).

... and who'd have thought a fly's posterior would be so interesting


This demonstrates a problem I find with flies; they are significantly easier to photograph from behind (at macro distances), as getting that close head on usually results in them departing the 'set' in the blink of an eye.

Cheers, Dave

[Shadowman]

Nice shot.

[John 2]

Looks spot on to me Brian. Nice shot.

[bnnrcn]

Looks very good Brian

[Geoff F]

Nice shot. Maybe it would take a fraction more midtone brightness; but only a little.

Apart from the eye colour it looks rather like our Snipeflies (Rhagionidae) or Stiletto Flies (Therevidae).

[JBW]

Well done

it did turn out nicely

[JBW]

Awesome image, colour and sharpness fantastic.

I'm working with new software and it helps a lot.

[JBW]

Looks good to me Brian (i.e. not dark)

It all looks natural to me and I think processing brighter could have lost colour/detail in the eye.


If mine, I might have burned the highlight sheen in the lower left corner by 1/3 to 1/2 stop.


Very good DoF, stacked I assume, as I think I see some artefacts on the left wing leading edge and left second leg, but these almost look like shadows, while the rest of it seems perfect (to my half trained eye).

... and who'd have thought a fly's posterior would be so interesting


This demonstrates a problem I find with flies; they are significantly easier to photograph from behind (at macro distances), as getting that close head on usually results in them departing the 'set' in the blink of an eye.

Cheers, Dave

It is stacked but not focus stacked. I'm using Capture 1 to make universal tweaks. Then I make as many clones as needed. in this shot 4. In each clone I adjust one feature. Export to ImageJ, reassemble and do final tweaking in Gimp.

[JBW]

Nice shot. Maybe it would take a fraction more midtone brightness; but only a little.

Apart from the eye colour it looks rather like our Snipeflies (Rhagionidae) or Stiletto Flies (Therevidae).

Lately with & without flash I have been getting some interesting eye coloring.

[JBW]

Look very good Brian

It is an interesting fly.