Picked up a shot of a terrestrial today: a little hoverfly sitting on some gorse by the riverbank.

Looked pretty good on the camera screen. Looked better when I downloaded it.







.D.

Great image - nice one!

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Thanks Lighthouse; I was quite pleased with it myself.


.D.

Excellent, love the way you clearly see through the wings to the body stripes below. Great photograph.

Now that is "excellent quality", macro, tripod & cable release??..

Regards V...

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Thanks both.

Viking,

Hand -held, lit by a single flashgun ( which packed in shortly after I'll have to buy a new one) on a bracket. 100mm macro lens. One heavily flowered coconut-smelling Gorse bush.

Tripod not an option -everything was pretty active in the sun.


.D.

need a decent macro lens myself.....where you using a ring flash ...wait for the rude comments from loopy

No - a standard flashgun off-camera above the lens, on a bracket.

Tell-tale shadows here (still looks OK though)on an aphid, also from yesterday:





.D.

What camara .D.?

TF

I recently replaced my Minolta Dynax 7D with a Sony Alpha 700. It's kind of an updated version of the same camera, four years on. I'll be holding on to the old camera as a backup though.

It's worth mentioning that the pictures would look much the same with any digital SLR, 90-100mm macro lens and the same techniques though. You can't tell anything much from a compressed resized JPEG.

Even fancy cameras don't go out and take your pictures for you.

.D.