Take one dead fly and play with light.

2 flashes and a reflector.

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Very nice indeed....

Perhaps add a bit more contrast.

well exposed shots. Good catch #1

Absolutely amazing stuff.....wish I did them!

Hmm - ok - I might should do more work with the raw conversion. Most of my work is done in CS2.....

Might need to get the Silky trial once more to test it

Thanks don - nice tip. I will probably try that out as well...

Was wondering if any of you have noise problems. At times I find the cropping to be a bit harsh regarding noise issues. What do you do? Do you PP in special programs. I find my Cs2 lacking a bit when it comes to noise. Often I end trying to blur backgrounds to remove some noise.

Experience?

Keen... very nice image and good exposure. A bit soft perhaps.

I'm planning to use a reflector this weekend - to add some backlight. Might help a bit. They always crawl around the same places - and stays around for a while.....

Only problem - they never sit still at all = lots of light.

I had loads of miss focused shots - these are extremely hard to capture. Hope you enjoy anyways




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Ok let me try to answer a few questions.

1) Flashgun - well to be honest you won't need it to start with. Starting to use flashguns will add a lot of extra that you need to control. If you are not familiar with dslr - you have plenty to learn first before buying a flash gun.

A tip could be to bounce the popup-flash on to the celling. Just a piece of white paper can do that - and makes wonders. (that is cheap).

2) Software. I still use the pentax raw converter. It is fine for the whitebalnce and so on. If you want to expand - I would suggest silkypix (which is the program the pentax raw converter is based on). It is £75.

What you need beside that is a software that can manipulate your photos. For that you can use a lot of different programs. Most used is of course photoshop (Cs, cs2 or cs3). On a budget the Photoshop elements could be a choice. It is a lot cheaper and got almost all features as photoshop.

You could also use free software like GIMP. I started by using Picasa2 (from Google). It is a combination of an organizer and editing software. Very nice to start with and easy to use.

3) Bags.

I love my Lowepro slingshot 200aw. It is very good to use - with good space for all parts.

4) Batteries.

Buy third party. I bought a few from HK by ebay. About 10$ - works like the pentax one.

5) Time and time and time and time Keep snapping and post results. Read forums and magazines. Helps a lot.

OH and read the guide - at least twice

Try this thread:

https://www.pentaxuser.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7523

Btw - your picture is huge - difficult to say what those specs are. Could be dust inside the lens as well.

Try put one a different lens to check it.