New Toys and Small Flies

[garethl]

I started playing around with a few new macro toys last night, and appart from the depth of field being a bit out (I'll need to work on that), I think the below photos have come out okay-ish.

Just a selection of some of my favourite small flies :)


Griffith's Gnats (#26)


The wonderful Sheer 14/0


Tan Biot Paradun (#24)


Emerging Midge (#24)


Sparkle Midge (#24)


Olive Biot Nymph (#24)


Micro Copper John (#20)


Olive Spinner (#32)

[adam]

Oh my, those are beautiful.

Do you wear loups when tyeing?

[rossa]

That's some tying. I'd need the hubble telescope to tie them.

[garethl]

Thanks guys, I'm really glad you like them :D

Adam, I don't use glasses to tie them, although after a full night at the vice my eyes do get a little sore. You're question has prompted me to maybe pick up cheap magnifying set soon...I wonder how they'd work out :)

Thanks again both!

G

[BrkTrt]

Super.

Well done.

Thanks,

Brk Trt

[ksbioteacher]

The flies and images are great.....My "inner fish" tried to slurp the sparkle midge....

Depending on your arrangement you may not be able to develop a deeper depth of field but you can stack several images with different focal planes using various computer software packages.....google image stacking if you are not already aware of the technique. You'll find an open-source package here that does a pretty good job.

http://www.hadleyweb.pwp.blueyonder....stallation.htm

[wrknapp]

Amazing. Your focus and patience is enviable.

Randy

[trout-nut]

Nice midges. I have a magnifying glass cannot get use to it. I just use it now for trimming if I want to get really detailed. I suppose you can get use to it. :)

[Satoshi]

Hmmmmmm... Very impressive.
What is the material used for the spinner tails in the last picture?

Satoshi

[adam]

I can only say that if you start to use magnifiers, give your eyes a rest now and then. Your detail work will improve as you will be able to see even smaller things...

My eyes are excellent as well but if I use the magnifiers, it hurts my eyes after a while but man, I can see the electrons moving around the atoms.