episyrphus-balteatus, a photo from Nottinghamshire, England

Photographer's Note

Another of my good guys episyrphus-balteatus or more commonly known as a hoverfly because they spend a lot of time zipping around and the hovering over a spot usually a group of flower before briefly settling to feed on the nectra then off again.My camera just isnot fast enough to get them in flight :0((((# one day maybe.
not all of them are as colourfull as this 10mm one, there a lot of nearly black ones and other fold their wings over the body which hids the colours.The iradesence on the wings is normal and not from over sharpening though I have pushed this one to the limit to get as large a picture as possible.

Des autres de mon bon episyrphus-balteatus de types ou généralement
connus sous le nom de hoverfly parce qu'ils dépensent passer comme un
éclair beaucoup de temps autour et planer au-dessus d'une tache
habituellement un groupe de fleur avant que brièvement arrangeant
pour alimenter sur le nectra puis outre de l'isnot juste
d'appareil-photo d'again.My assez rapidement pour les obtenir en vol
:0((((# un jour peut-être pas que tous sont comme colourfull en tant
que ce 10mm un, là beaucoup presque de noir ceux et autre pli leurs
ailes au-dessus du corps qui les hids l'iradesence de colours.The sur
les ailes est normal et pas de l'excédent m'affilant cependant ai
poussé celui-ci à la limite pour obtenir aussi grand une image comme
possible.
Adjustments
open and crop 26.83 X 28.22 X 600dpi
Saturation +15 lightness -4 contrast +6
USM 146% X 3.3 pixels X threshold 1
Resize to 761 X 800 @ 72dpi and save for web @199k

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kourosh (2346) 2003-10-27 3:00

Robert your guy is so pretty! so colorful. i think it's close enough and details are captured well.
good green background also and good use of DOF.

carper (96) 2003-10-27 3:14

I like the collors and the macro shot. the compositie is not the best one, but I know how diffecult it is, to make a perfect macro shot. My complements.

gepall (1838) 2003-10-27 3:43

Very beautiful and detailed macro shot

Liora (1857) 2003-10-27 11:03

A most magnificent photo! the colors are perfect and so is the composition.

milloup (1829) 2003-10-27 12:05

Very good macro with lots of details in it. This chap looks as if he were made from amber, cristal and onyx with wings made of "soap bubbles" ;-)

AlainB (78) 2003-10-27 19:33

Superbe la macro, les couleur sont très belle. Il manque un peu de focus sur l'insecte mais j'adore.
Félicitation!!!

nmess (2301) 2003-10-28 19:54

You must spend an extraordinary amount of times with your camera, because you post a lot of excellent bug shots.

The colors and clear focus reall make this shot for me. I like the way we can see the oily sheen of the wings.

cdewet (0) 2003-10-29 11:38

Yebo, Yes!!, as we say here. This is a great one, Robert. The strong diagonal created by the leave, and the Newton Rings on the wings of your friend adds impact to this shot. Sorry, my green men are dead, at least I am on the site again!

amrinolastname (223) 2004-04-20 2:10

The detail shown very well.
A bit unsharp, and the noise is noticable, but still nice. I give big smiley because at smaller resolution, this will look very beauty.