What am I supposed to do with this?
A fly lands on a leaf and looks a little lost. I, of course, helped it get back on its way… to wherever it happened to be going. I gave it directions and a packed lunch in exchange for the chance to take a couple of photos.
This photo isn’t true macro. It isn’t at the 1:1 scale needed for that. This is what is properly known as “close up” photography. I used my trusty, but slow and noisy, Tamron zoom lens (70 – 300 mm) in its macro mode. This gives a scale of about 1:3. I’m not sure if this is sharp enough and certainly, this is the sort of image where I should be practice focus stacking but I didn’t have time for a lot of photos before the subject flew off.
What do you do in similar situations? Do you always use a tripod? Do you use flash? I used neither here.
Aren’t bugs cool?
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