Fly on Yellow

[Harold Davis]

another macro attempt with the flies.

D300, Sigma 150 w/ 25mm ext tube, f/4.5, 1/60s, ISO 800, +1.0EV, manual flash at 1/2 power.

thanks for looking. comments and critiques are appreciated.

[Cheryl Flory]

wow, makes me want to try macro!
very sharp!
I might crop off a lot of the bright white petals to focus on the fly more. and would clone out that little J blur between the legs. great HA! very nice image!

[Ron Boisvert]

Hi Harold,

My first reaction was to the excellent sharpness and composition. I'm sure there will be some suggestions as to cropping differently. The BG is nice; I think this is a great shot! I love it!

I'm far from an expert, by any means, but I thought that the whites and yellows looked overexposed, so I checked the histogram, and it shows all three channels have many overexposed pixels, and the blue channel with underexposed pixels. This shot is so good, that if it were me, I would go back to my raw converter and pay very close attention to bringing the tonalities closer to the center of the histogram. I believe I have this correct, but if I don't, someone please let me know. Oh yeah, there's a little junk to clone out under the fly, too.

This is an image I wish I had taken!! Really nice...

[Harold Davis]

thanks for the comments. ron, you are absolutely correct. i went back and set the black and white point and it looked a ton better.

[OvidiuCavasdan]

I like the pose, those big red eyes, beautiful colors, BG very nice. I like it a lot!

[Alfred Forns]

Great comments !!! Fully agree !!!

I like the crop and surrounding flowers, help fill out the bg !!! Fly position is good and normally best to fit environmentally !!! Extreme full frame close ups require perfect light !!! Like it a lot Harold Will be going after them soon !!! :)

[Lance Peters]

LIke it MR H - good advice above - Keep them coming :)

[Dan Brown]

Beautiful job Harold! Agree with all comments. So this even looks better after your revisit!!! great!!!

[Gus Cobos]

I like the composition, image and capture Doctor...I like the color rendition and the sharp eye...looking forward to your next one...:cool:

[Gail Spitler]

Good discussion. For me, one additional thing that really works well in this composition is the total color palette is very nice; i.e., all the colors in the image complement each other.
Very, very nice.
Gail

[Gordon McKechnie]

Agree with Gail - colours range gives whole image a beautiful feel. Lovely shot!

[Nonda Surratt]

That's a pretty macroy fly Mr H.

Ron covered it for me on the colors.