Sunday, July 10, 2011

Week 6 by Robin


From Becky's lovely image...to my photo of a this hideous creature, the common house fly. Beauty and the beast! Ha ha! I was outside with my macro lens looking for something cool to photograph with my external flash, but all my photos were terrible. So... I saw this housefly on the window sill and he became my model. I used my flash off the camera and set my camera's flash to flash with the external for the first time. It worked! No wires! I diffused the light some. The colors were quite nice for such a revolting creature! :)

-----------UPDATE------------
This photo won a first place prize of $60.00 at JPGMAG "JPG Shootout" " What's Buggin' You? " I didn't quite believe it at first, but it was true. Then...I got paid for the winning photo! Yay! What a wonderful feeling THAT is! Joy! :D

2 comments:

  1. Hahaha love the Beauty and Beast comment. Amazing how that worked out. You really did a great job with the flashes on this house fly. Love the colors and detail of the fly. Great macro shot. I tried to get some macros of a ladybug and waterdroplets today. Then found out my ISO was set too high after the fact. Had fun shooting anyway.

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  2. Help me! Help me! Can't help but to think of Vincent Price when I look at this photo :-). Super macro! Great job!

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