A close encounter of the Drone fly kind by jesika2

A close encounter of the Drone fly kind

Very sunny day brought out a Drone fly which sat happily on the south facing wall for a few minutes. I used the Super Sixty (mm) lens on its 1:1 setting, focused on the eye. 15 images stacked, differential 4. I knew the eyes were quite spectacular but didn't know about the blue colouring on face and legs or about the odd little feet.
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Great job with focus stacking! Super close up!
February 23rd, 2023  
Wow, really well done!
February 23rd, 2023  
but that eye!
February 23rd, 2023  
Oh my word this is fabulous! Your technique is totally beyond me but I love the result! Are you continuing with your butterfly development pictures this year? fav of course!!
February 24th, 2023  
Wow, I'm loving my 60mm. I haven't yet progressed beyond stacking 8 images.
February 24th, 2023  
@koalagardens @masonmartin @rontu thank you, I have to say I’m rather pleased with it! Now if it had waited until I’d got the extension tubes on…
February 24th, 2023  
@merrelyn it’s a Super Sixty as far as I’m concerned. I think 15 is the default stacking setting and because OM1 does all the hard work, I just agree, it’s easier! Have you tried playing with extension tubes yet? I’m rather pleased with this. It helps if your model cooperates, doesn’t it?
February 24th, 2023  
@stowgarden thank you. Stacking is easy with the OM1, it does all the hard work, all the human needs is steady hands - I lack that now - and a cooperative subject. Hopefully the gods of buttermoths will be kind to me again this year and Mrs Brimstone will decide my Baby Food Tree is suitable for her offspring. I never know what I’ll find but there’s always something going on. 🤞🤞🤞📷🦋🐛
February 24th, 2023  
@jesika2 I've used extension tubes with my Nikon, but I don't have any for the OM1 - yet :)
February 25th, 2023  
Scary
February 25th, 2023  
@merrelyn get some and PLAY. Mine are Meike, not expensive. Maybe if I took photography seriously I might get Olympus, but these do the job I think.
February 25th, 2023  
@jesika2 My Nikon ones are Meike - I won them in a camera club raffle. It took me a little while to get a handle on them. I'll have to look into some for the Olly.
February 25th, 2023  
@merrelyn it’s just play time AKA frustration!
February 25th, 2023  
A wonderfully detailed shot - fav!

Ian
March 4th, 2023  
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