This bubble blowing is an activity practiced by many flies. The bubble (actually a droplet) is always sucked in again. There are all kinds of theories circulating among fly experts; for example, it is suggested that it is a way to warm up. It seems that flies always do this with their head...
I have always had a facination for bugs and tiny things. As a child I was the ginger fat kid with the pockets full of magnifying glass, tweasers , bug books etc crawling around the woods ha. I took a rest from this in the navy / dad years and fast forward to now and I'm back ... but this time...
It's an image of an oriental blue fly. It was taken with Sony A7iii with Sony 90mm Macro lens with Raynox DCR-250 attached. I have used external flash with Softbox diffuser. Hope you like it. 🙂
f/14, 1/160s, ISO500, FL - 90mm
It's an image of a soldier fly (Sargus). It was taken with Sony A7iii with 55-210mm lens with Raynox DCR-250 attached. I have used external flash with diffuser. Hope you like it. :)
f/16, 1/320s, ISO500, FL - 144mm
For this I used Focus bracketing 60 photos and composed with Helicon Focus and then ran through Photoshop.
E-M1Mark III
M.Zuiko 60mmf/2.8 macro
Caruba extension tube 20mm
Iso 200,
1/6 sec.
Light: daylight only
Tripod, very simply the coffee table.
Also included a photo of how the photo was...
These are two images of an oriental fruit fly. These were taken with Sony A7iii with 55-210mm lens with Raynox DCR-250 attached. I have used external flash with diffuser. Hope you like these. :)
f/11, 1/200s, ISO1000, FL - 210mm
f/13, 1/250s, ISO1600, FL - 210mm [Stacked 3 photos]