Posted by Tony T on 03-09-2007 13:40
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crex wrote:
Wonderful photos. Thanks for the technical info. You should publish a coffee table book with all these detailed fly photos :D
Jorge once asked "why study flies"; for me it's the structures, the detail and the incredible colours - all of which can be appreciated by macro-photography.
A book of close-ups would be nice but I think the market for Nearctic Diptera photos would be in the range of 1-5.
I will accept credit for technique but the real credit goes to Nikon for their incredible lenses, quite capable of resolving hairs and spines on a fly, and to Helicon Focus that magically can combine many, basically out of focus images, into 1 sharp 3-dimensional image. I have stacked (combined) up to 30 such images!
Attached is a blow-up of this fly's head