My Simple Fly Photography Setup

[nfrechette]

[melk]

Nice setup. Your pics always look great!
Mike

[jcampbell]

Where did you get your lamps?

[nfrechette]

i got the lamps at home depot but they are avaiable on amazon and probably ebay

https://www.amazon.com/Sunlight-Spec.../dp/B00LG6YVLQ

[jcampbell]

Thank you. I might just try a picture or two. Lastly, what are you using to post pics on the site. Never done it before.

[nfrechette]

i now use postimages.org

https://postimages.org/

i also have lots of images on imgur

https://imgur.com

both of them are good for hosting photos and are free

[rainbowchaser]

Norm, how do you get the coolpix camera to focus on the fly? Mine wants to focus on the backdrop. I get a picture of the texture of the woven cloth I've draped over a box with the fly very out of focus in the foreground.

[Chuck441]

'chaser- I assume you're setting the camera to Macro, right?

Chuck

[rainbowchaser]

Yea, that's why I get such a nice picture of the weave in the cloth.

[nfrechette]

Norm, how do you get the coolpix camera to focus on the fly? Mine wants to focus on the backdrop. I get a picture of the texture of the woven cloth I've draped over a box with the fly very out of focus in the foreground.

here are my camera settings



1. aperture mode
2. zoom lever



1. aperture mode
2. flash turned off
3. macro turned on
4. f-stop i use

i will position the camera close to the subject, zoom in with the zoom lever, depress to shutter button 1/2 down to focus the camera on the subject and then depress it to take the photo

note: after taking the photo, the sd card is inserted into the card reader on my computer. i then open a photo editing software program to edit the photo by cropping and resizing the photo to a smaller size suitble for forum viewing