Horse Fly - Maybe a Repost
Sep 14, 2019 21:09:21 #
Pardon me if this gets posted twice however I looked for it on the True Macro site and could not find it.
This is a Horse Fly that my better half found in the grille of our car yesterday. It had some damage on its other side which I assume was its demise. Although she still thinks that I'm quite mentally defective she calls me when she comes across insects and even spiders now for me to catch instead of giving them the old "Mexican Hat Dance". I seldom find Horse Flies although this is my third this season so I must be luckier than in the past.
I used a pastel watercolor flower print paper as a background of this setting. I got it and several others at Hobby Lobby for $0.25 per sheet. The camera lens is the 50mm reverse mounted enlarger lens ($35) mounted on a 30 to 90 helicoid extension tube ($29) extended to zoom so that the majority of the fly filed to fit into the frame of the camera. It's a stacked image consisting of 274 images processed into one.
It is often asked why so many images are used and it is because the depth of field of an enlarger lens is designed to be flat and only the thickness of a roll of camera film. That's why so many "slices" are needed to travel the distance of a few millimeters. I like to think of it like cutting a potato with a razor blade for the thinnest possible slices compared to using a large thick knife cutting it into thick slices.
Thanks in advance to all those who view and for your comments, suggestions, questions and critique.
This is a Horse Fly that my better half found in the grille of our car yesterday. It had some damage on its other side which I assume was its demise. Although she still thinks that I'm quite mentally defective she calls me when she comes across insects and even spiders now for me to catch instead of giving them the old "Mexican Hat Dance". I seldom find Horse Flies although this is my third this season so I must be luckier than in the past.
I used a pastel watercolor flower print paper as a background of this setting. I got it and several others at Hobby Lobby for $0.25 per sheet. The camera lens is the 50mm reverse mounted enlarger lens ($35) mounted on a 30 to 90 helicoid extension tube ($29) extended to zoom so that the majority of the fly filed to fit into the frame of the camera. It's a stacked image consisting of 274 images processed into one.
It is often asked why so many images are used and it is because the depth of field of an enlarger lens is designed to be flat and only the thickness of a roll of camera film. That's why so many "slices" are needed to travel the distance of a few millimeters. I like to think of it like cutting a potato with a razor blade for the thinnest possible slices compared to using a large thick knife cutting it into thick slices.
Thanks in advance to all those who view and for your comments, suggestions, questions and critique.
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