July flies

[GardenersHelper]

I just processed these from my backlog. They were captured in July in our garden using my FZ200 bridge camera and KX800 twin flash. The ones in this post probably used a Raynox 150 close-up lens. The Picture wing flies in the following post were smaller and I may have used the more powerful Raynox 250 close-up lens for those. All were captured using f/8, which is equivalent to f/45 on a full frame camera.

The raw files were batch processed in DXO Optics Pro 11 and Silkypix Developer 7 Pro and finished to JPEG in Lightroom 6.

There are 1300 pixel high versions in this album at Flickr.

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1047 01 2016_07_23 P1270672_DxO RAW01a100 SP7 LR6 13ooh by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

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1047 02 2016_07_23 P1270673_DxO RAW01a100 SP7 LR6 13ooh by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

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1047 03 2016_07_23 P1270680_DxO RAW01a100 SP7 LR6 13ooh by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

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1047 33 2016_07_23 P1270865_DxO RAW01a100 SP7 LR6 13ooh by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

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1047 34 2016_07_23 P1270879_DxO RAW01a100 SP7 LR6 13ooh by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

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1047 35 2016_07_23 P1270873_DxO RAW01a100 SP7 LR6 13ooh by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

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1047 36 2016_07_23 P1270888_DxO RAW01a100 SP7 LR6 13ooh by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

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1047 37 2016_07_23 P1270884_DxO RAW01a100 SP7 LR6 13ooh by gardenersassistant, on Flickr


Continued in next post ...

 

[GardenersHelper]

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1047 32 2016_07_23 P1270852_DxO RAW01a100 SP7 LR6 13ooh by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

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1047 29 2016_07_23 P1270841_DxO RAW01a100 SP7 LR6 13ooh by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

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1047 30 2016_07_23 P1270846_DxO RAW01a100 SP7 LR6 13ooh by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

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1047 11 2016_07_23 P1270728_DxO RAW01a100 SP7 LR6 13ooh by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

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1047 15 2016_07_23 P1270750_DxO RAW01a100 SP7 LR6 13ooh by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

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1047 09 2016_07_23 P1270727_DxO RAW01a100 SP7 LR6 13ooh by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

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1047 16 2016_07_23 P1270756_DxO RAW01a100 SP7 LR6 13ooh by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

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1047 24 2016_07_23 P1270799_DxO RAW01a100 SP7 LR6 13ooh by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

 

[jbw]

Amazing work

 

[User.81858]

Nick you never cease to amaze, utterly fantastic. keep them coming

 

[Derek897]

As ever, fantastic. Always great to see your work

 

[GardenersHelper]

Amazing work

Nick you never cease to amaze, utterly fantastic. keep them coming

As ever, fantastic. Always great to see your work

Thank you James, Charles, Derek.

 

[lightshipman]

Insects aren't my thing, but the detail you show is amazing. I can only imagine the patience involved in obtaining such sharp images, they really are a credit to you.

 

[GardenersHelper]

Insects aren't my thing, but the detail you show is amazing. I can only imagine the patience involved in obtaining such sharp images, they really are a credit to you.

Thanks Andrew.

Once you have the lighting and technique worked out I don't think you need too much patience when photographing common subjects like I do, which you can find quite easily by just wandering about in the garden. Not like birding for example - for that you need real patience, much more than I have, to take the time to get to a suitable location and then wait around for ages for an occasional shot, and having just one or a few opportunities to get it right (that's how it is in my imagination at least - not being a birder I don't really know how it is done). In contrast, if I get it wrong with one subject I can move a few feet, find another one and try again. And sometimes they hang around for ages, or there are plenty of them, like with the flies here.