Flies and flying insects

[meady100]

Found a cloud of tiny mosquitos last night. Seems almost impossible to get a good shot to me. Shutter speed needs to be 1000/1sec at least, but with that speed, the aperture has to be wide open, which makes focus a lucky dip! Can't see how I can use a flash, because it limits my shutter to 1/200sec. Can anyone can do better, and describe how exactly? I lay down the gauntlet!

 

[Beef-Mc]

Thats quite good likes.

Wish I could even manage to catch one of them in flight.

 

[Jungle_Jim]

you need a decent macro lens mate

heres two of mine

 

[meady100]

you need a decent macro lens mate

heres two of mine

I should add my mosquitos were appx 1mm in length btw - more like tiny fruit flies.

Nice pics - I have a Canon 100mm macro. But they have to be in flight, sitting still is waaaay to easy ;-)! (Having said that, what level of magnification is that on the second 2:1 using tubes?)

 

[Jungle_Jim]

the second pic was actually shot on a nikon 5400 with a screw on macro adaptor, not sure of the magnification but as you can see you can get pretty close

 

[unofficialPete]

Maybe the best I've got, extension tubes and BIF's (bugs in flight) are a pain!

 

[meady100]

Great shot!

 

[McBunny]

just a shame the dof was so shallow on the pic pete would have been 100x better if the abdomen was in focus too. but even still its very good

 

[Brown.]

Just Wait till they land on your knee....and when you aint got a macro, reverse ya lens

 

[unofficialPete]

just a shame the dof was so shallow on the pic pete would have been 100x better if the abdomen was in focus too. but even still its very good

thanks, Ideally I'll catch one head on, its just so hard with tubes, that one was at f/18 and about an inch from the lens..


Helps when the buggers sit still :clown:

 

[fUbAr]

PMSL, dunno why but I find that dude hilarious!

 

[Brown.]

i Want me some nifty boardering to make my pics look better too !!

 

[kpowell911]

WOW, What camera's and lens are you guys using?

 

[Dip]

+1 Wow...I need that lens. Which is it?

 

[Brown.]

Mine was a normal lense reversed....but sigma 105 or sigma 150mm macro are the absoloute dogs!!

 

[McBunny]

im just looking at buying the sigma 150 now
this photo just made me go WOW !!

 

[Scutch]

I'm not really into photography to be honest, but crikey there are some amazing photographs in here!!

 

[H182]

PMSL, dunno why but I find that dude hilarious!

+1

Looks like a cartoon drawing or something.

 

[MaLicE]

http://photo.net/photos/siwanowicz

that guy will blow u away!