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Full on cranefly + repost

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Posted by David Taylor on September 1, 2009 at 7:37 PM
Full on cranefly + repost
This cranefly was busy hoovering on the surface of one of my pears.

Sigma SD14 dslr
Sigma 50 EX macro lens
Sigma ring flash
Hand held
F18
1/125s
ISO50
Manual exposure
RAW adjustment in
SPP3.5
Cropped in PS Elements 5
Framed with Xara Xtreme Pro 5


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Posted by Justin on September 2, 2009 at 2:45 AM
It has an almost sci-fi feel to this one. It looks like it could be a very tricky subject to compose well, with all those legs everywhere, but I think this works well, with the insects legs leading the eye straight to the creature's face and body. Good one.
Posted by Jeroen Stel on September 2, 2009 at 3:11 AM
Very different from the usual cranefly shot and indeed well composed!
Like it a lot!

Greetings,

Jeroen Stel
Posted by Matt Cole on September 2, 2009 at 3:15 AM
an excellent shot David, I agree about the almost sci-fi feel to it. Well composed.

Matt
Posted by Andy Shepherd on September 2, 2009 at 4:57 AM


It's certainly full frame David, great looking eye's too.

Andy...
Posted by Tim Munsey on September 2, 2009 at 5:30 AM
Excellent, enough to give anyone nightmares.

Tim
Posted by Brett Lewis on September 2, 2009 at 6:09 AM
Really nice work. all those angles leading to the head as Justin says makes for some interesting viewing. I think one of your best yet.

Brett :toast: :toast:
Posted by Tim Gregory on September 2, 2009 at 6:09 AM
Wow, thats really striking!

Looks like some sort of terrible machine, I like it.

Posted by Ian Macdermott on September 2, 2009 at 6:48 AM
Very nice David big and excellent lighting :toast:
Posted by Marcus Conway on September 2, 2009 at 9:05 AM
A shot with impact. Cracker :toast:
Posted by Maggie Campbell on September 2, 2009 at 1:40 PM
Another stunner David. The detail if phenomenal. Love all the in and out of focus legs. They give a real angular feel to the image. I have an awful lot of catching up to do :biggrin: :wavey:
Posted by David Taylor on September 2, 2009 at 4:33 PM
Thanks everyone for taking the trouble to comment, very much appreciated. :wavey: Here is a repost showing what it was feeding on. Looks like fungal hyphae, it has even picked up some on its left upper antenna.

Maggie, I thought it was me that was doing the catching up.:biggrin:

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Posted by Marcus Conway on September 2, 2009 at 4:41 PM
That's even better :toast:
Posted by David Kjaer on September 2, 2009 at 6:04 PM
W :eek: W very striking image - like something out of a sci-fi film!

David :toast: :toast: