Not very many insects around here at the moment - will be several months before any in abundance - so, have to shoot the 'flies' that I already have.
The main point of doing this was to attempt to emulate, in stills, the close-ups seen in the videos on this site:
http://www.theweeklyfly.com/
Since I'm getting a 7D (soon), I may also wish to shoot my own, similar, videos.
Setup was one YN-468, full power, with butter-tub diffuser, 12 inches directly above the subject (this would simulate work-lamp) - another YN-468, 1/3-stop below 1/4-power, no diffuser, 24 inches to the left of the 'eye' of the hook (to pick up some of the detail underneath and to give high-lights). ISO 250, f/16, Sigma 150-500mm at 500mm, 37mm of extension tubes. Distance from front lens element to subject was approx. 36 inches, approx. 51 inches from subject to sensor-plane.
Both YN-468 units were in 'S2' slave-mode. I used the on-camera pop-up flash to trigger those. I did use my hand to block any direct light, from the pop-up, from hitting the subject. I'm going to order a set of the RF-602 triggers so that I wouldn't have to use the pop-up for triggering this type of setup in the future.
First 3 images have no PP other than conversion to .jpg and re-sizing for forum.
#1 - 'Overhead' flash-unit only
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#2 - 'Fill' flash-unit only
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#3 - Both flash-units
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#4 - The final image, some PP and cropping of #3 above - I know that the 'under-wing' is slightly blown-out at the right-hand side of the image; something to work on next time. For those interested, this is a variation on the 'Muddler Minnow' pattern, tied to represent a Sculpin.
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