[shawnw315]

I got a question. I tried to take a couple of pics of flys that I tied and had no success. First I have a good quality digital camera, and thought it might be the camera so I borrowed another camera and discovered I still had the same problem.

The problem: when I zoom in the fly in the vise for a good detailed closeup it gets blurry. I can take a clear pic of it but its too far away to show detail. How in the heck do you guys get them excellent quality pics of flys? Do you resize the pic? Whats the secret?

[Christensen]

See www.flyartstudio.com. Neal has really developed an interest in fly photography. His site has several good articles, interviews and examples.

The short answer to your question is probably that your lens is not suited to macro photography -- it is not designed for close-distance focusing. Check the minimum focal distance on your lens. Some of the point and shoot cameras, however, have a specific macro setting.

[FFNC]

You need a macro lens or a point and shoot with a built in macro to shoot those. Your camera might have a Macro and you might not know it.....look for the Flower symbol on the camera some where. If you know the model and make, we could tell you if the camera has the Macro or not.


Looks like this
It might be on your mode button.

Also another good site for info is http://globalflyfisher.com/gallery/digitizing/

[shawnw315]

well what you think of this pic? any thing else I can do to improve quality?



http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w...hitaker/he.jpg

[FFNC]

Looks good to me....shoot it from the side though...use a tripod of some sorts too.

[shawnw315]

thanks for the help