Fly on the edge

[Mitch Carucci]

Simplify used on the background. Short focus stack on the fly.

[Nancy Bell]

This is great! I love macro photography like this! How did you get that fly to stay put long enough to do a focus stack? The all green bkgd is awesome with the narrow DOF & soft swaths of color. Great details and very cool colors on the fly. Nice touch with that one leg just over the edge of the leaf. I like the unusual placement of the fly looking out of the frame. It continues the line of the main view in the leaf.

[Diane Miller]

What Nancy said -- just wonderful! You must have composited the fly -- I can't see how to Simplify just the BG and leave the fly so sharp, but there are a lot of settings in Simplify (and all the other Topaz stuff) that I've never figured out.

[Paul Lagasi]

Great detail on the fly, love the title, good work Mitch.

[Mitch Carucci]

Not very good technique, but I held the shutter down and swept the focus. If the shutter speed is high enough, you can stack the photos later.

[Mitch Carucci]

I should have mentioned that I masked the fly and only applied simplify to the background.

[Dennis Bishop]

Not very good technique, but I held the shutter down and swept the focus. If the shutter speed is high enough, you can stack the photos later.

Very inventive technique, Mitch. And -- given the results -- I think it is a very good one.

[Jackie Schuknecht]

Great stacking and colours on the fly. I like all the negative space too.

[Cheryl Slechta]

Hi, Mitch, sorry I'm late and I think it's all been said above. I like your stacking technique - I'll have to give it a try.