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Golden Fly in Tiny Flower

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I liked the clean shot of this metallic fly which I think is called 'Gymnochaeta viridis' in Latin.

Cheers, Jens.

Photographer:	X Jens Birch
Folder:	Jens' Macro
Uploaded:	19-Oct-2004 10:50 CEST
Current Rating:	9.00/1 View all ratings Delete my rating
Model release available:
Camera:	Olympus C5050
Exposure time:	1/125 sec.
Aperture:	f/8
Focal length:	101 mm
Lens:
Focusing method:
ISO:	64
White balance:	Auto
Flash:	internal
Image format:	HQ
Processing applied:	The post processing was made with PSP8 and consisted of cropping, histogram adjustment of contrast, automatically adjusting colour balance and saturation, and finally applying an unsharp mask after resizing
Various:	The picture was taken with a home-made +20 achromatic doublet close-up lens, using the on-board flash to help illuminate the subject via a home-made fiber-optic macro flash unit (see http://hem.passagen.se/birchs/TTL_ring_flash/). Shot in A-mode with the aperture f/8 (to get as deep DOF as possible) and forced flash gave an exposure time of 1/125 sec.
Image resized to:	700x498

Excellent picture!

Peter Pollack at 10:36 CEST on 20-Oct-2004 [Reply]