Macro photography setups

Flies are a bit of a nuisance at the moment where I live because there are so many of them in various shapes & sizes. In the spring we get the tiny 'fruit' flies but in summer, house flies and others are the norm.

At this magnification though, I do find a strange beauty about them, primarily because one can study parts of their anatomy that you don't otherwise get (or want) to see.

I'll probably not feel the same way about them at lunchtime tomorrow when it'll be a full time job keeping them off of my food, out of my wine, and whereever else they may decide to explore.

I've not seen one yet but apparantly we have 'flesh' flies here that give birth to live young rather than lay eggs.

Great pics, and I'm encouraged to dust off my bellows and stick a SMCP-A 135mm on the end of it to see what I can achieve.

Thanks for the images.

Simon, those are great, I especially like the second one for the pose, it's a bit more unusual, and it looks like the fly's about to flit off. Kind of reminds me of a Spiderman pose too.

Just got a set of those bellows myself, but haven't had much of a play with them yet, just doing a few water doplets on plant shots one evening a week or so ago. With my Sigma 105mm macro I think they give about 2:1, but I'm looking at ways to reverse a 50mm or 24mm on them.

Find it surprisingly easy to hand hold too, seems to sit quite comfortably in the palm of my hand.

Dan

I took this with my new Sigma 50mm at the weekend. Poor old Fly was still alive!

Wow! Great shot!

Thanks for the kind words guys.

I'm itching to get out and do more shots.