The Merry Month of May-2

Having "technical difficulties" due allergies & antihistamines are causing very shaky hands.

-1- Fly

You cannot tell anything about shaking hands. Some of the best work I have looked at in a while. Awesome, thank you for sharing

The shots do not show the difficulties, great work Ishrani.

Great set of shots. The advantage of flash - helps us shakers out!

I'm going to take a handful myself Ishrani and see if I can get shots like these!
Stunning work, lovely colours/detail, your light looks awesome, are you using same setup or trying something new?

Hayfever or not this is a wonderful set!

Thank you, everyone. It is very trying with the allergies and for every 10 shots, I only find 1 worth keeping. I appreciate your comments immensely.

KILLERCLOWN wrote in post #15953947
I'm going to take a handful myself Ishrani and see if I can get shots like these!
Stunning work, lovely colours/detail, your light looks awesome, are you using same setup or trying something new?

KC, you are too funny! Thank you for your comments.
I am using the same set up but paying closer attention to my settings. Kind of taking more control of the camera as I develop a better understanding of my subjects and diffusion.

nice set hon.
the light,s very good,and love the comps

Excellent work Ish.

Love the snipe fly. Hope to capture a few myself this year. I know of a place thanks to one of the other guys (Phil) on here where I can photograph some of those

Love the crab spider shot. I used to hate spiders, I still have an aversion to letting them onto my person but photographing them I love it and crab spiders as well as jumpers are my favourite.

Wonderful series- can't tell you are having problems.
Re ID's You don't get immature flies- they come out of the pupa adult size. The immature robber fly is I Think an Hybotid fly - Platypalpus sp.- they are insectivorus though like robber flies- just a lot smaller
Brian v.

mandokid1 wrote in post #15954721
nice set hon.
the light,s very good,and love the comps

Thanks, Deni. Achoo! lol

IanClark wrote in post #15954915
Excellent work Ish.

Love the snipe fly. Hope to capture a few myself this year. I know of a place thanks to one of the other guys (Phil) on here where I can photograph some of those

Love the crab spider shot. I used to hate spiders, I still have an aversion to letting them onto my person but photographing them I love it and crab spiders as well as jumpers are my favourite.

Thank you, Ian.
I absolutely disliked spiders and had a dreadful fear of them for most of my life, so much so, that my four adult sons still jump on tables at the site of one! My insistence to shoot them has lessened my fear immensely. Spiders are indeed interesting subjects.
Hope you get those snipe flies!

LordV wrote in post #15955504
Wonderful series- can't tell you are having problems.
Re ID's You don't get immature flies- they come out of the pupa adult size. The immature robber fly is I Think an Hybotid fly - Platypalpus sp.- they are insectivorus though like robber flies- just a lot smaller
Brian v.

Thank you so much, Brian. I need to research the life cycles of many insects as I seem to think that everything has a mini version!

Great set, doesn't look like you where having any trouble at all. Really like the last one.