Thursday, November 24, 2011

Backlit Hoverfly

ISO100, 105mm, 1/400s, f/2.8, -2ev, levels, cropped

A hover fly doing what it does best in a beam of autumn Sun.
They always look great with the Sun glowing through their body and giving them a silver lining, but I also liked how the streaks of Sunlight in the background turned out and the glistening raindrops on the leaves give it a nice ethereal backdrop. Light levels were just about spot on to use near perfect settings too, with low ISO still giving a nice speed to avoid camera shake and blur the wings nicely, while keeping to f/2.8 to optimise the bokeh and dialling the exposure compensation right down to capture those highlights.

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