Fly for id.

[glsammy]

There may not be enough of the fly showing to id it, but it's always worth asking.

[JRsbugs]

I'd say Anthomyia procellaris male.

Janet

[glsammy]

Thank you. I thought it might be.

[nightshade]

Lovely photos Graham, and the equipment was?

[glsammy]

Originally Posted by nightshade

Lovely photos Graham, and the equipment was?

Canon 7D with my MP-e65mm plus MT-24 flash with my home made diffusers. These shots were really to test the diffusers. On a white shelve, I think they performed OK.

[nightshade]

Can you post a photo, of the set up, I am intrigued that it works so well

[glsammy]

Originally Posted by nightshade

Can you post a photo, of the set up, I am intrigued that it works so well

Here it is:



The diffusers are an adaptation of a set up I found on the web. There's actually two diffusers, one a stofen type to fit on the flash heads, the other is the type of diffuser you can get to go over camera built in flash heads.
The two are bolted together. Works quite well. Those shots were done on ETTL flash setting.
To make it clearer here's one of them:



The other change is the flexible head support. That works very well, easily adjustable to any angle.

And here's the standard MT-24:

The one criticism of this flash set up was the harshness of the direct flash. To Canon's shame they've never devised any diffuser so it's down to the user to make their own.