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Musca domestica - Fly @7x

 

Woke up very late Yesterday and had a nice lazy saturday, very enjoyable... :)

Decided to take this 2 week old fly, wash it up a bit and do a stack. I really should have leaned it more thoroughly but i was lazy about it and worried i would snap its head off if i messed around too much with it :D

 

This is using my newer setup, as i talked about in my last post.

Ill try and get a picture of it up soon with some explanation to how i create my work and what i do to the insects to get them in fiddly poses etc as some have been asking me through messages.

 

The above is a single stack of 290 images, all taken under the same light conditions and a 2.5 second exposure time.

I used a 4x Objective with bellows and extension tubes which ended up at around 7x as i wanted to fill the frame with this one.

I used 2 old lamps diffused through some filter paper stuff i found and helping hands to hold it and the insect in place on the rail.

Got my new remote working and for 3 pounds it works very well indeed !

 

Hope to get a new image up every few days, trying to improve the gritty bits now and i may go and buy some LED lamps from IKEA instead of these 100watt lamps that get in the way.

 

Have a great week, hope the weather picks up !

 

More detail in the LARGE image www.flickr.com/photos/sequentialmacro/7428883348/sizes/k/... :)

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Uploaded on June 24, 2012
Taken on June 24, 2012