Portrait of a Fruit Fly - 3mm long (1/8th inch) including the wings
by roz

Comment by SandyP:
Your talented niche just continues to get more and more outstanding! Congratulations on top honors with this one!

Portrait of a Fruit Fly - 3mm long (1/8th inch) including the wings
by roz

Comment by Lydia:
That's crazy cool, Roz!

Portrait of a Fruit Fly - 3mm long (1/8th inch) including the wings
by roz

Comment by grahamgator:
Fox, you just continue to amaze me with your macro talent. Wonderful composition, congrats!

Portrait of a Fruit Fly - 3mm long (1/8th inch) including the wings
by roz

Comment by Donna-Dee:
Amazing detail! Getting enough shots of them is a real trick when they don't stay still long!! Well done!! Congrats on your blue!

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Comment by Neat:
EPIC!

Portrait of a Fruit Fly - 3mm long (1/8th inch) including the wings
by roz

Comment by P-A-U-L:
Woohoo way to go Roz - that is a cracking colourful critter. The details captured is incredible! Congrats!

Portrait of a Fruit Fly - 3mm long (1/8th inch) including the wings
by roz

Comment by IreneM:
As Anita says, this is one of your best ever. The sharpness, the colors, the detail... Amazingly fabulous image, Roz. Many congrats on your shiny new Blue.

Portrait of a Fruit Fly - 3mm long (1/8th inch) including the wings
by roz

Comment by Neat:

Originally posted by roz: Originally posted by Neat: One of your best ever, so,sharp. But I don’t understand how you used three photos though, isn’t that illegal, still maybe I don’t get it the focus stacking thing, never done that before. Congratulations, and I’m not sure how you’re surprised you got the blue lol, are you being humble ;) hey Anita .. with standard editing you are allowed to focus stack if the photos you use are pretty much the same .. with insect macro photography the depth of field is so shallow that you can have an eye in focus and something less than 1mm away oof .. depending on your fstop .. but even at say f11 it will still be very shallow .. so moving the camera closer or further away a very small amount .. and taking lots of photos to get various parts of the insect in focus but still retaining the general appearance of the photo .. and then stitching them together in your editing .. that's allowed in standard editing in dpc .. i manually focus stack in photoshop where i start with one photo .. say the body of the insect .. where the eye may be out of focus .. i'll then bring in another photo with the eye in focus .. and mask off the bits i dont want .. etc etc .. hope this makes sense .. xx also .. not humble .. lol .. didnt think a 6.8 would get the blue .. with a free study the blue is usually above 7 i thought .. :)

Ok thank you, all this time I've been here I didn't know you could do this. Maybe I just don't pay attention enough :( excellent work. I wish I had the patience to do this...

Message edited by author 2020-06-08 02:56:19.

Portrait of a Fruit Fly - 3mm long (1/8th inch) including the wings
by roz

Comment by primabarbara:
No wonder this got the blue - awesome sharpness and details
Congrats, Roz!

Portrait of a Fruit Fly - 3mm long (1/8th inch) including the wings
by roz

Comment by roz:

Originally posted by Neat: One of your best ever, so,sharp. But I don’t understand how you used three photos though, isn’t that illegal, still maybe I don’t get it the focus stacking thing, never done that before. Congratulations, and I’m not sure how you’re surprised you got the blue lol, are you being humble ;)

hey Anita .. with standard editing you are allowed to focus stack if the photos you use are pretty much the same ..
with insect macro photography the depth of field is so shallow that you can have an eye in focus and something less than 1mm away oof .. depending on your fstop .. but even at say f11 it will still be very shallow .. so moving the camera closer or further away a very small amount .. and taking lots of photos to get various parts of the insect in focus but still retaining the general appearance of the photo .. and then stitching them together in your editing .. that's allowed in standard editing in dpc ..
i manually focus stack in photoshop where i start with one photo .. say the body of the insect .. where the eye may be out of focus .. i'll then bring in another photo with the eye in focus .. and mask off the bits i dont want .. etc etc ..
hope this makes sense .. xx

also .. not humble .. lol .. didnt think a 6.8 would get the blue .. with a free study the blue is usually above 7 i thought .. :)

Message edited by author 2020-06-08 02:30:54.