stacked portrait of a blue bottle fly (photo)

Hi all,

The photo below is a portrait of a blue bottle fly that is one of the pictures that went up on my blog yesterday. These are a common type of blow fly that has the delightful scientific name of Calliphora vomitoria. Considering that these flies feed on carrion, their scientific name seems rather appropriate...

Cheers
EC
macrocritters

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8446/7...5bc00ddd_z.jpgflesh fly Calliphora vomitoria edited sharpened_filtered cropped copyright Ernie Cooper 2012 sm for post by ernie.cooper, on Flickr

Very impressive! By, "stacked," do you mean this is a montage of multiple images in order to achieve better depth-of-field? If so, I assume you shot this with a dead fly?

Outstanding detail even at this size of file! Great shot! :thumbsup::thumbsup: Jeff

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Originally Posted by Grandpaw

Outstanding detail even at this size of file! Great shot! :thumbsup::thumbsup: Jeff

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Thank you!
EC
macrocritters

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Originally Posted by Photo-John

Very impressive! By, "stacked," do you mean this is a montage of multiple images in order to achieve better depth-of-field? If so, I assume you shot this with a dead fly?

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Yes and yes...this image was compiled from 58 separate pictures using Zerene Stacker.

EC
macrocritters