The Fly and the Flower

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The Fly and the Flower
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I was taking photos of bees and needed to sit for a while next to some flowers and this little fellow was sitting there. I tend to ignore flies but this one would not move and had some color. I do have a insect book I picked up (a National Wildlife Federation book) and the best match I could find is the Green Bottle Fly, not sure if that is correct.

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Technical Details

Is this a composite: No
Canon 90D 180 Macro f/3.5 at 1/250 f/180 iso 1000. Flower was a bit bright so used PS to tame it down. There was a bit of noise in the background so I used Sharpen AI and it did a pretty good job with the fly and the background. As always I use this or any other plug in as a smart object in Photoshop so I have a mask to control what I really want as the final result.

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Beautiful detail in the fly, Dean. Your processing of the white flower works very nicely in setting off the fly. Very nicely seen and capture.

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Dean, a very nice capture of a very common insect. I was shooting some photos of one very similar to this the other day myself. I think the colors of them are pretty neat. You did manage the whites nicely.

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Dean, the fly stands out well from the white surroundings with the details in the flower petals adding extra interest. A fine use of “spare time”.