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In my garden there are several Lemon Balm plants which are the home to Green Tortoise Beetles, and Nursery Web and Wolf Spiders. Because of the fairly dense foliage it can be difficult to frame and light the subjects.

Yesterday, I was close to the plants, with my camera and two of my favourite lenses. About two or three whorls of leaves down, I noticed a rather diaphanous fly. I thought it was one of the smaller Crane Flies. However, on close examination, the antennae were the typical, sort ones of the majority of dipterans.

The fly was facing towards the base of the leaf, giving me no chance of a head-on shot. A side view was fine for the lens but not for flash, a leaf being right in the preferred light path.

Not feeling confident, I proceeded with the lens I had on the camera, my reversed Schneider FM 40mm with FOV 6mm, and managed to get an acceptably well-lit front end of the fly. encouraged, I changed to my Kiron at 1:1 but none of several attempts was well lit.

So, of the two images, the low power was very dark on the near side and had to have a lot of digital light added.

This is a working distance issue.

This fly has an unusual, suede leather nap-like clothing of hairs.

Harold



© Harold Gough 2015





© Harold Gough 2015



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Jun 24, 2015 at 12:26 AM
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Good captures- looks like a snipe fly to me Rhagionidae.
Brian v.



Jun 24, 2015 at 12:48 AM
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LordV wrote:
Good captures- looks like a snipe fly to me Rhagionidae.
Brian v.


Thanks, Brian.

The images are as much about learning to identify flies as about the individual.

The "golden hairs" of the recently-emerged insect ties in nicely.

I have edited the topic title.

Harold



Jun 24, 2015 at 01:04 AM
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p.1 #4 · p.1 #4 · A Shady Doli? No, a Snipe fly


Nice shot Harold.


Jun 24, 2015 at 05:38 AM
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MarkB1 wrote:
Nice shot Harold.


Thanks, Mark.

I was going to put a comment on the second one that it had a green cast, from the leaf in front of the main flash. However, the thick leaf seems to have blocked most or all of the light from that gun, leaving deep shadow, present in the RAW file but compensated for, better than I expected, by digital fill.

Looking at the first image, for comparison, I think this is a fair assessment.

Harold



Jun 24, 2015 at 06:58 AM
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Nicely done Harold ~ Ron


Jun 24, 2015 at 10:10 PM
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surfnron wrote:
Nicely done Harold ~ Ron


Thanks, Ron.

Harold



Jun 25, 2015 at 12:13 AM





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