A very dead fly… (example of focus stacking)

[ErikKaffehr]

Hi,

Here is a shot of a very dead fly I found previous week in the office.



Shot with a Photar 25/2.5 at f/5.6, 40 slices. Klick on the image for full size.

Best regards
Erik

[Justinr]

Hi,

Here is a shot of a very dead fly I found previous week in the office.



Shot with a Photar 25/2.5 at f/5.6, 40 slices.

Best regards
Erik

RIP.

[eronald]

Yeah, that's a good Swottar lens

Edmund

[NancyP]

I must be dim today - what?? (is that a pun?)

[Slobodan Blagojevic]

I must be dim today - what?? (is that a pun?)

Erik used a Photar lens + fly-killing device is known as "flyswatter" = Swottar lens. 

[eronald]

Erik used a Photar lens + fly-killing device is known as "flyswatter" = Swottar lens. 

The politically correct way to do this is to put the living fly in a plastic bag, and in the freezer for a few minutes, then you can remove the bag, take the pictures, and the corpse warms up and flies away

Edmund

[NancyP]

Ok, so I AM particularly dim today.......

[eronald]

Ok, so I AM particularly dim today.......

Q: How do you test a doctor for senile dementia?
A: You ask him to remind you of the first name of Dr. Alzheimer.

Edmund

[ErikKaffehr]

Hi,

Two points.

1) I did not do the fly any harm, I found in ceased to exist state.

2) The image is mostly intended as a demo of focus stacking.

Hopefully, I can take some nice looking pictures of some nice looking creeps in the spring, using your suggested technique.

Best regards
Erik

The politically correct way to do this is to put the living fly in a plastic bag, and in the freezer for a few minutes, then you can remove the bag, take the pictures, and the corpse warms up and flies away

Edmund

[Slobodan Blagojevic]

... I did not do the fly any harm, I found in ceased to exist state...

That doesn't excuse you (at least according to PETA)... have you tried to resuscitate it? Besides, it is wrong to profit from someone's misfortune. No living being should be harmed, or dead desecrated, for the sake of an experiment. 

[rpsphoto]

That doesn't excuse you (at least according to PETA)... have you tried to resuscitate it? Besides, it is wrong to profit from someone's misfortune. No living being should be harmed, or dead desecrated, for the sake of an experiment. 

Agreed...this is shameless exploitation! What next, photos of the homeless? Can't we get back to shots of flowers and puppies?

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

I'm sure Slobodan can post for our edification the correct way to perform CPR on a dead fly. 

Impressive image, Erik.

[NancyP]

That's easy, eronald. Alois (Aloysius) Alzheimer - a pathologist. I should know about a few of the late 19th century and early 20th century eminences in my own speciality.

[eronald]

That's easy, eronald. Alois (Aloysius) Alzheimer - a pathologist. I should know about a few of the late 19th century and early 20th century eminences in my own speciality.

I always wondered about these "appropriate" names, like the Lumière (light) brothers or in this case Alzheimer's disease which sounds like "Alt's Heim" disease (old people's home).

Edmund

[Alistair]

1) I did not do the fly any harm, I found in ceased to exist state.

That fly's not dead, he's only sleepin'

[Jonathan Wienke]

No living being should be harmed, or dead desecrated, for the sake of an experiment. 

So I guess my experiments at the frog pond seeing how high I could launch a swimming frog by shooting under it with an AR-15 would not be PETA approved. Rats.

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

... Rats.

Did you get PETA's approval for using that word?

[eronald]

For an encore, Erik, will you serve up a croakroach?


Edmund

[ErikKaffehr]

Hi Edmund,

You mean "cockroach"? Now, I don't think so, we don't have them at office and they are far to large for my intended purpose.

Hopefully, I can take some nice pictures of "Coccinella magnifica" in the summer, but those nice insects will be handled very carefully and released unharmed.


Best regards
Erik

For an encore, Erik, will you serve up a croakroach?


Edmund

[AFairley]

At the risk of being non-PC, and recalling an old non-PC phrase, "The only good fly is a dead fly."