Zach Matthews
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Oh now if they are able to fire remotely Neal may have more ability to handle the black background shot than I thought.
These are looking very good. Now some tips on the world of Macro photography.
(1) Remember, when your subject is only inches from the lens, the equivalent depth of field you might be used to for say f/11 or f/16 is greatly contracted. You didn’t get the entire wooly bugger in focus. Your 60mm Micro-Nikkor (if you got it in?) should be able to handle mechanical apertures down to about f/32 and artificial apertures created by extending the front element all the way to like f/54 (I think that is the highest I have ever seen).
(2) Backgrounds don’t necessarily all need to be the same color, and flies don’t always need to be on a vise. One of my favorite fly backgrounds with good lighting is an all-black sheet, but it will need to be a long way back in order not to catch light from the R1C1 setup. Also, be sure to frame to fill the whole image.
And now, the inevitable lawsuit:
http://www.ajc.com/news/content/metro/clayton/stories/2008/08/20/bigfoot_hoax_lawsuit.html
Actually, what they did wasn’t limited to suits for damages–these dudes could actually go to jail if the prosecutor gets involved.