Tips for photographing flies- by Henning Sæbø
featured, Videos — By Kevin Hospodar on February 20, 2013 10:43 am
Henning Sæbø from www.flytyingforum.com (Hatches free forum for fly tiers) shows some great tips for taking photographs of your flies. Knowing your camera setting, light, and a solid back drop are all you really need
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Well done sir!
Absolutely brilliant! I too do a lot of macro photography of flies, but cannot afford a digital SLR camera. I am currently using an Olympus SP800UZ bridge camera which has a 30x optical zoom and 14.5 megapixels. I have experimented with various different set ups and settings on my camera. So far I get the best results using natural light and a pale blue background. I set the camera on the ‘cuisine’ setting (gives really vivid colours) and use super macro. I am quite pleased with the results, but would love to improve. Has anyone got on any suggestions for doing this sort of photography with a bridge camera?
You make it look so easy and your results are fantastic. I especially like what you used for the blue background.
+1
+1. I
was educated. I take pictures of flies for our club newsletter, and do OK but I do, on occasions have problems. But I do it by accident rather than from a point of expertise. So thanks for giving me a point to start from with some confidence. I don’t have a macro lense and use my telephoto and just back off a little and it seems fine. (most of the time) What lens are you using?
Thanks
Outstanding work and very informative, thanks for sharing. Now a question for you: I have a Minolta 7000i autofocus that I bought new probably 25 years ago so it’s not digital. Do I have to buy a digital camera to get this same quality photos? Or can I get that same quality without buying a new digital camera? Thanks for your time. Harry
Harry have you ever seen the flys in the fish mag, fly mag’s before digital
That should answer your question . Only have the very high meg. Pixal cameras . Finaly cought up with film .
A good trick to further minimize tremor is to use remote switch or self timer.
The larger and more three dimensional the fly the smaller the aperature(larger number) you will need to get all of the fly in focus.