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Thomas Herou
01-20-2009, 03:52 PM
I've tried for many years to master the art of catching the flies in the air.
Finally I succeeded somewhat and the key was to learn their behavior and to foresee their moves.

Pentax K10D,D-FA 100/2,8 macro,flash

Ray Blake
01-20-2009, 04:34 PM
Thomas, excellent capture of a very difficult subject, well focussed and good dof
Ray

adcolon
01-20-2009, 07:08 PM
Very nice......I know it's very difficult.

Julie Kenward
01-20-2009, 07:36 PM
Nicely done, Thomas. That fly is about as sharp and clear as you could want it to be in flight! I do think there's something going on in the BG - either noice or posterization - or maybe jpeg compression...not sure.

I'd see if you could smooth it out a bit so it looked as great as your insect does!

Ed Cordes
01-20-2009, 09:42 PM
Very good capture of this very hard subject. Color is good; sharpness is great. I like the hint of the wings showing.

Aristotle Georgiou
01-21-2009, 04:01 AM
Wonderful close up and capture Thomas!!!

Thomas Herou
01-21-2009, 05:23 AM
Thanks for the comments.I think the compression makes the BG look noisy.In TIFF
all looks fine to me.

Jared Gricoskie
01-22-2009, 01:13 AM
Thomas,

Excellent shot, its such a different perspective. Given the situation the DOF and focus are very nice.

In a perfect world where you control everything a few millimeters of extra DOF would be nice just beyond the eye.

This is definitely something I need to try, thanks for the inspiration!

Art Kornienko
01-22-2009, 06:55 PM
Hi Thomas, a technically difficult shot to get and you did super job, you have excellent advice above, the detail is very good, wonder what your shutter speed was? I might have rotated the shot left or right just to add a bit of drama.

Thomas Herou
01-23-2009, 12:37 PM
Thanks!
About rotating the picture,I don't know.In real life they're almost all the time horisontal.
But I have other pictures from different angles which are more intresting.I'll probably post
some of them here.