Tiny Fly

[Michael_Schubert]

Lens 70mm

Shutter Speed 1/1250

ISO 400

Fstop f/4

 

 

Here is an image of a 4mm big fly that I took in my lunch break last week. I processed the image just in cropping/rotating the image + increasing the exposure on the fly itself a bit and +Nik Collection by Google +Nik Sharpener Pro3. 
The depth of field came on the fly out of the camera, no post processing on that. 

I've bought my 3rd used lens on Ebay. This is a Konica Minolta AF 35-70mm macro (20€ Ebay). Because Sony Alpha is using the same bayonet than Konica Minolta it's easy to get new and cheap glas. 

So I really had to test out my new macro lens. But had no tripod with me. 

I couldn't get that close without "cheating" a bit. I used one of myextension tubes (36mm) to reduce the minimum distance to the subject. 

Like I said I've had no tripod with me so I set the camera to a relatively high shutter speed of 1/1250 and moved the camera back & forth while shooting in burst mode. At the End there were 1-2 good images where the fly is in focus.