Spread your snoots little one, and fly!!!

Just got back from another brief outing, so here are two more direct from the session, and I've another set to stack which I think were a real find!
More on that later...

So, here's a young fly about to leap into the unknown, and a slightly bigger one giving me the evil-eye!!!

Again, using my giant snoot so I could shoot at ISO100, 1/125s, f/5.6 fully manual, with flash at full power.

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Good ones - light looks very well diffused but just wondering about the flash angle as the side nearest the lens does not look well lit ?
Ah- just remembered the light is above the lens
Brian V.

LordV wrote in post #9711545
Good ones - light looks very well diffused but just wondering about the flash angle as the side nearest the lens does not look well lit ?
Ah- just remembered the light is above the lens
Brian V.

Thanks for the comments Brian.
The forecast for tomorrow is heavy rain, but when it clears up I'm thinking of taking a couple of reflectors with me (ie, some white cardboard!) and putting it on the left and right to get full-round cover.
Do you think that will brighten the images enough?
Also, I'm still shooting at ISO100, so as I get more of a "feel" for this snoot business, I've plenty of leeway to up the ISO, change the aperture and/or exposure.

Nice detail in the eyes in the second pic. I'll go back and check your original snoot thread as maybe I can start working on making one to occupy me until I have enough $$$ for a 100mm macro...

hsmoscout wrote in post #9712573
Nice detail in the eyes in the second pic. I'll go back and check your original snoot thread as maybe I can start working on making one to occupy me until I have enough $$$ for a 100mm macro...

Making a home-made snoot? Can't recommend it enough!!!
And we've some more sun this morning (even though they said "rain" yesterday!), so I might dash out around 10am to catch something else - expect some more from "Sky-Snoot" soon!!!!