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Expired Fly

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Posted by Nicholas Armitt on June 1, 2008 at 5:37 PM
Expired Fly
D300, 180/ f3.5, Gitzo
ISO 200, f/14, 1/4, 0.0ev
Crop 5%, Aperture, CS3 resize & sharpen

Spent the last couple of days playing with a new macro lens, found this dead blue bottle while photographing orchids with some other uknp members. Unfortunatly no matter how patient I was (and I was very patient) the spider was just to camera shy.

The title came from PhilH :toast:
Posted by tony flashman on June 1, 2008 at 7:55 PM
Thats one nice dead fly nick, what I'd give for a shot like this. What do you say Brett.
Regarding the "patient" part, we are all agreed......the men in white coats will be with you shortly.:biggrin:


Tony. :toast: :toast:
Posted by Ian Andrews on June 2, 2008 at 3:01 AM
Very shortly!! :wink: :wink:

Ian :toast:
Posted by PhilH on June 2, 2008 at 3:25 AM
That is definately an expired fly Nick.... its actually quite good :biggrin:

How many hours were you patient for?



:toast: :wavey: :toast:
Posted by Nicholas Armitt on June 2, 2008 at 4:03 AM
About 2 hrs, with an additional hour of ridicule from batman and robin above.
Posted by Robert Lawrence on June 2, 2008 at 4:28 AM
Certainly an unusual subject Nick but a very strong image.
Posted by Barry Southon on June 2, 2008 at 4:43 AM
Nick

There's no flys on you.

Barry :wink:
Posted by Brett Lewis on June 2, 2008 at 4:59 AM
The thing is, I think he first saw the fly as a maggot then as a pupae and then waited for most of it's life to get this shot.. LOL! As Tony said what I'd give.. Hee! Hee! :wink: :biggrin: I think the Kestrels were on their second brood by then as well..! Men in White coats and a jacket with many buckles me thinks...

Well done Nick.. and for taking the jokes..

Brett. :toast:
Posted by Elliott Neep on June 2, 2008 at 5:58 AM
Must have been sipping on a nearby lager... a good 'drunk in charge' advert! Stark and bold.At least the spider is happy! :toast: :biggrin:
Posted by Paul Inglis on June 2, 2008 at 7:01 AM
Hi Nick,

Cracking capture! Love the composition!
:toast: :toast: :toast:
Posted by Adam Seward on June 2, 2008 at 9:05 AM
I like it Nick. Well worth all the ridicule! :toast:
Posted by eric weight on June 2, 2008 at 4:01 PM
Best picture of a dead fly that I've seen for a while. :biggrin:
I quite like this as it is; dead thistle, dead fly, nice colours, but I would clone out the spider.
:wink: :toast: :toast: Eric
Posted by Nicholas Armitt on June 2, 2008 at 4:54 PM
Eric i do have versions with out the spider :biggrin:
Posted by eric weight on June 3, 2008 at 6:29 AM
I was a bit worried that you might think I was being fascetious, but I really did think that the spider wasn't prominent enough to be relevant and that it was a bit of a distraction from an interesting 'still-life' shot.
Anyway nice shot.
:toast: :toast: Eric