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Hover Fly

Postby Big Red on Tue Jul 21, 2009 8:00 pm

Hover Fly is about half the size of a normal bee so this pic is about a 50 percent crop...
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Re: Native Bee

Postby chrisk on Tue Jul 21, 2009 8:14 pm

too wierd...
2 "native bee" threads by 2 different people...
love this one, great subject isolation.
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Re: Native Bee

Postby Glen on Tue Jul 21, 2009 8:39 pm

Great work Shane, was it a dedicated macro lens? Do Pentax make one?
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Re: Hover Fly

Postby Big Red on Tue Jul 21, 2009 8:55 pm

after a bit of checking it looks like its a Hover Fly and not one of the native bee varieties ...

taken with the Pentax FA100/2.8 Macro

Bob G and i were in the same gardens at the time :lol:
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Re: Hover Fly

Postby colin_12 on Tue Jul 21, 2009 11:17 pm

Nice, at least it is not on;y mozzies there then. :cheers:
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Re: Hover Fly

Postby ATJ on Wed Jul 22, 2009 8:00 am

Nice shot, Shane.

I'd like to see the fly a little larger but give its tiny size I can appreciate the difficulty. Does the lens go to 1:1? Can you get extension tubes? They might be worth trying.

I'd also like to see the shot a little lighter to bring out some of the detail in the fly.
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Re: Hover Fly

Postby DebT on Thu Jul 23, 2009 3:17 pm

Love it, especially the detail and refracted colours caugt in the wings
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