Phool Proof Fly Photography
Some of you mgiht have wanted to post images of your flies but don't have a good way to take the photos. Fear not.
I wrote an article on a simple method of photographing flies with a point and shoot digital camera for our TU chapter newletter. I take my photo kit with me to fly tying events to take photos of other tyer's flies. I use my portable Ott tying light rather than the flourescent spot in the article.
You can find the article here:
http://www.wrvtu.org/newsletter/PDF/newsletter3-4.pdf
Re: Phool Proof Fly Photography
Silver Creek,
Thanks for posting that. I need to take some photos of flies in the near future. We will use the suggestions when we go about the task! We have to photo an entire tying sequence.
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Silver,
Great article, thankd for sharing . Any idea of a decent camera with that micro feature and what price I can expect to pay? Also I would like to use it at the stream to take fish pics also.
Thanks
Frank
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My photos were taken with an old Sony DSC-W50. You should be able to buy a comparable camera for about $100 - $150 now. Try the macro feature before buying.
Waterproof cameras have internal zoom lenses and so there is no external lens to fix the cup around.
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I've heard of folks having pretty good luck with an old Clorox bleach bottle. It might leave enough room to manipulate things for a tying seqence.
-hopper
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That's a good idea.
Basically, the cup acts as a light tent to diffuse the spot light. The cup allows you to hold the fly close enough for a macro shot. To shoot flies in a vise, you could try the bleach bottle as a light tent and zoom in on the fly. Then do a digital zoom and crop the photo to see if has enough detail.
