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The Blue Bottle
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The Blue Bottle

by Balan Vinod

Gallery: Macro & Close-upPosted November 24, 2013118 views9 comments
Folks,

I havent been shooting much, and was at the same plant today, trying to make images similar to the ones before. With a Shallow dof..

7D, 70 200 Extn tubes @ 4.5

Thanks NPN for your support

Balan Vinod

Comments

9 comments
Comment posted by Randy Runtsch on November 24, 2013 at 1:54 PM
Hi Balan,

This image brings out the true beauty in what most people would consider a pest. The perch, which may be a flower petal, works well. I'm torn about removing the dark area on the right side or not. The main subject might be too tight in the frame if it were cropped out more than half way.
Registered on October 30, 2013, 50 Posts, 445 Comments
Comment posted by Philip Hodgkins on November 24, 2013 at 3:04 PM
Lovely Bluetail Fly! I would give thought to a 1:1 crop or a 4:5, cropping from the right. :smile:
Registered on July 24, 2006, 2741 Posts, 12349 Comments
Comment posted by scott lanz on November 24, 2013 at 7:55 PM
Very nice, Balan. I like the colors -- the blue-green fly sitting on the pink petal. The colors work well, particularly with the shallow dof. Nice light on the subject as well.
Registered on November 14, 2003, 840 Posts, 12902 Comments
Comment posted by Howard Cheek on November 25, 2013 at 10:52 AM
Cool shot of this blue Blow Fly, the shallow DOF works very nicely here Balan.
Well done :toast:
Registered on July 24, 2008, 1201 Posts, 10758 Comments
Comment posted by Yun Gao on November 26, 2013 at 9:23 PM
Beautiful metallic blue, Balan. The soft pink petal is dreamy. Nice capture.
Registered on September 11, 2012, 267 Posts, 1621 Comments
Comment posted by Sanjay Sundaram on November 27, 2013 at 1:20 AM
Nice one, Balan. The color and dof are perfect. I agree with some of the other comments about a tighter crop without the dark area. Well done.

Sanjay
Registered on April 9, 2013, 107 Posts, 725 Comments
Comment posted by Mark Seaver on November 29, 2013 at 2:22 PM
What a neat look at a disliked insect. You've got it positioned well in the frame and the sharpness is right on the fly and nowhere else. I also really like the metallic sheen on it's back and sides.
Registered on January 23, 2011, 1103 Posts, 17270 Comments
Comment posted by Ingrid Vekemans on December 4, 2013 at 10:15 AM
That shallow dof really works well! I like the composition as is - to me the right hand side has to be there for balance and it doesn't bother me that it happens to be dark :smile:
Grt, Ingrid.
Registered on August 2, 2010, 138 Posts, 780 Comments
Comment posted by Lucy Aron on May 4, 2014 at 3:39 PM
Wonderful shot of a disagreeable creature. Esp like the sharp high def metallic against the soft pink bgd.
Registered on February 25, 2011, 189 Posts, 1160 Comments