This is going to be fun

[pittendrigh]

I blew about $600 bucks on a pair of 400 watt umbrella strobes from Alien Bees.
The following is exposure #1. Right off the camera, with minimal color balancing using Gimp on my Linux box.
Photoshop on a Mac usually does a better job.
So it's bound to get better from here.
That's a #24 DaiRiki 125 hook, so this is a small fly.

I've been shooting pretty good macro fly photos for years using incandescent light and a light tent.
The strobe lights look like they're going to whup incandescent big time.