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Mikael Sundberg
Sweden
Alien?
Shooting small animals isn´t easy.

This fly was more of a model than a fly, it seem to fancy mu Sigma macro lens.

Got a Q about the background, its as shot, just adjusted the exposure
Samsung GX1s; Sigma EX 105 Macro lens; ISO 200; Aperture; Spot; 500 at f/16
Have Your Say
sharpfocus:10:20 on 12/08/2008
Wow, Supergreat shot on a very difficult object, cant understand that You could come so close and still have a sharp image.

One of the best animalpictures i have seen

wow again

johnarm:11:35 on 12/08/2008
Great shot, How did You manage to get soooooooooooo close without disturbing the fly

4,5 outof 5,,U have a vote from me

johnsander:08:58 on 14/08/2008
Great Shot, sharp and great light and colors

jimjohnsson:12:01 on 15/08/2008
Nice one, one vote

TheFinn:08:02 on 20/08/2008
Bra bild

johnjohnsson:09:54 on 20/08/2008
Nice shot mate, Great clarity and focus on a very difficult object U got my vote

surgeon001:10:10 on 20/08/2008
Nice background and the composition is great it seems like the fly are on a soon to be attack, love it

ThomasSaint:12:55 on 20/08/2008
Like the open space to the left it gives the shot of action, then the actual fly is greatly captured.

A winner in my book

Thomas

Aideebar:02:48 on 21/08/2008
nice shot, curious..where was the photo taken? looks like you have edited out or removed the background.

Surgeon:07:01 on 21/08/2008
I was lucky, the background was a white table and a solid whithe chair, so no editing except for adjusting the exposure.

Thanks for your comment

Lorenabenson:01:42 on 22/08/2008
Ouch what a ugly fly, not the picture it´s great,

My vote is hereby cast

Bragi J. Ingibergsson:09:19 on 23/08/2008
Excellent capture!

mike2008:11:59 on 23/08/2008
wow, I can count the hair on the fly....Supershot

best in class

U got my vote

pplloo:12:23 on 24/08/2008
i cast one vote and U got it

Surgeon:12:33 on 24/08/2008
thanks mate

lora:12:58 on 24/08/2008
Wow--Great shot

richandjennaward:09:29 on 24/08/2008
looks like he's sitting,waiting for someone to come and talk with him! voted

kloker:07:20 on 25/08/2008
Really nice

Yoker:07:01 on 28/08/2008
Nicely captured. Go for the win, Got my vot

Migueltorres:07:59 on 29/08/2008
Muy bien

frankieboy:08:51 on 30/08/2008
what a shot, he/she is actually sitting down never seen that before

Got a vote from me

Surgeon:09:11 on 30/08/2008
Thanks for all nice comments and votes on my picture

aikman:07:48 on 01/09/2008
Good shot

torkelserty:07:56 on 03/09/2008
Nice capture from a fellow Swede,,yep a vote for this image

ddefalco:01:44 on 03/09/2008
amazing i love it, its like you asked the fly to pose for you and it just sat there whilst you took its portrait amazing work!

got my vote!

Dazrobertson75:10:31 on 03/09/2008
OUTSTANDING, This picture is wonderful, has character, Detail is very impressive, ha to be a winner.
This has my vote, good luck to you too.

triandifilo:06:46 on 05/09/2008
This is a brilliant picture, Congratulations ! Would appreciate it if you could have a wee look at my pics & see if any worth commenting on, thanks.

John_Berry_SHOOTS_People!:12:19 on 06/09/2008
Hey, thanks for voting for MY photo! Not often a competitor votes against his own photo! Thank you!

triandifilo:09:19 on 06/09/2008
And thanks for voting & commenting on my photo. I just recently added it having been at the beach all summer. I don't see any harm in voting for the photos that I really like. I entered this competition to learn from others who take brilliant pictures, like yourself.

marietsvensen:08:02 on 08/09/2008
Snyggt

mrutter:07:51 on 08/09/2008
Great capture

mikahappula:07:45 on 10/09/2008
Utterly great image, just love the exposure and clarity

Got my vote mate

robbert:07:13 on 15/09/2008
Nice mate, funny to see a fly competion against a bird of prey.

Alien, haha, just waiting for S Weaver to materialise

Got a vote

clippo:11:17 on 16/09/2008
must be missing something here - nice shot but I've seen much better fly macros. The white background is unnatural and the flies abdomen seems to have been obscured... also composition doesn't seem balanced. Just my thoughts but surely this isn't the best in the category?

frankfrake:07:40 on 17/09/2008
Nice shot, like the composition

triandifilo:07:26 on 17/09/2008
clippo I think it is the best macro shot for animals just look at all the detail have you tried to catch a fly never mind take it's picture! I know I wouldn't be able to take a picture like this, could you?

laban:12:45 on 18/09/2008
snygg bild Mikael, hoppas du vinner

clippo:12:59 on 19/09/2008
triandifilo - take a look at any of the threads in the macro section of the Canon Digital Photography forum. There are many shots similar but better than this one - not mine necessarily. Other points about this image... the detail level isn't that high. If it was a sharp image you'd see the honeycomb of the eye. I find it slightly odd that this image has generated such a high response. There are lots better in this category. Guess we'll see if the 'experts' think its good.

clippo:01:02 on 19/09/2008
it looks like this fly is actually 'clamped' in position to me by the way. See the white around its abdomen? Can the photographer explain what that white stuff it please?

rockym:08:27 on 20/09/2008
Nice hope it wins

Marco74:08:43 on 22/09/2008
I like this picture too, Mikael! Voted :-) See you. Marco74

clays:07:14 on 24/09/2008
Like your shot, gl

morroco123456:12:38 on 25/09/2008
I love the simplicity you've given the subject, it gives a tight focus to the subject, and the use of negative space creates a brilliant compositon.Voted

sinisalo:08:25 on 30/09/2008
Great shot mate

sinisalo:08:25 on 30/09/2008
Great shot mate

miltonrashid:05:27 on 03/10/2008
Nicely captured a real winner in macrophotography, GL Got a vote from me

harryHaffa:07:21 on 06/10/2008
Snygg bild Mate, Nice pic

Photolena:07:27 on 06/10/2008
Only one picture can win, i hope that this is the one

treny:08:42 on 06/10/2008
As most of the people that have had a say.

Great shot, clarity and sharpness and a very ugly Alien

rebeckaNr1:07:37 on 07/10/2008
Wow, Great close up, got a vote

dimitragiorgiou:05:01 on 08/10/2008
Just amazing !!

astridnilsson:08:39 on 09/10/2008
wish i could take pictures like this one

snyggt jobbat Mikael

sallydogherty:08:47 on 09/10/2008
Got a vote

It really looks as a Aline from Alien

henryxd233:03:42 on 09/10/2008
The thing I am not understanding about this shot is the white in the corner, Is the fly even alive or did you simply take a white clip and clamp the fly to a piece of paper and forget to crop the shot. Though there is some nice detail to this shot I dont think there is nearly enough detail and composition with the white part in the corner throws the whole photo off.

Surgeon:04:08 on 09/10/2008
well the fly is (was anayway) alive and kicking, sitting on the top of a white gardenchair and the background is another white garden chair, to bad that you dont like it, be glad to see some of your shot, but U haven´t posted any?


JohnAndKelly:12:26 on 10/10/2008
Nice shot, I´m out to buy a Macro lens
Thanks for the inspiration

minno:09:07 on 10/10/2008
tjohooooooo what a shot

jimbo12:09:14 on 10/10/2008
Some macroshot, wow just great''


got a vote

FelicityAnnA:11:53 on 12/10/2008
One ugly specimen I wouldn't want around the house. But I keep coming back to see how's it's doing. You might be on your way to POTY2008. Voted.

Surgeon:01:59 on 12/10/2008
Ohh, Thanks for the kind words.

jdesj043:04:00 on 12/10/2008
It's a good picture, but I think that anyone with a good macro lens and patience can get this shot.

axentis36:06:14 on 12/10/2008
I don't this is excellent !

markolazzardi:07:13 on 12/10/2008
totaly agree, great shot and ugly animal.

ouch didn´t know that they looked like that

1 vote from Italy

DougieL:07:19 on 12/10/2008
U can buy any lens and not be able to shott pictures like this one,

imagine how small a fly (sorry alien) and how hard it is to catch them and the you have to take a picture of it too.

Stunning

1 vote from Finland (Go Sweden)

werder:02:38 on 13/10/2008
Nice shot 1 vote

falkengren:02:57 on 13/10/2008
En röst från sverige

Dazrobertson75:04:56 on 13/10/2008
if I could i'd vote again, don't understand the bad commets above, this is a fantastic image and i too keep coming back to see how it's doing, Surgeon I truly hope this wins and makes the people who wrote bad comments eat their words, good luck mate 18 days to go.

travesti:06:34 on 13/10/2008
Agree with the previuos writer POTY2008 material, but there is a fierce competition

tlarsson:06:46 on 13/10/2008
nice

kuvamies:07:23 on 13/10/2008
Great shot indeed, but for all those of you wondering how it was possible to get so close I would say that it looks like the "tail" of it is sqeezed between something holding it in place making it fairly easy to get close.

jarri:05:17 on 14/10/2008
Don´t really care how it was shot.

I love the Alienfeeling it give me.

So start be serious and comment on the photo instead of how the setup might have been

Go Surgeon U got a vote from me Jarri

lucassundberg:05:43 on 14/10/2008
one vote for daddy

Surgeon:05:52 on 17/10/2008
ouch they aint cute Good shot

Surgeon:06:00 on 17/10/2008
There is a lot of comments of how I shot the fly and discussions of why people vote on the shot.

How it was shot has been explaind earlier, why people vote, hmmmm, I don´t know why people vote on my shot beside that I like it myself.

It might be as easy as that they maybe like it like I do.

And thats what everything is about in a good shot, a shot that touches people and make them take a standpoint.

Thanks all that have voted for the "Alien"

photojunkie1:06:02 on 17/10/2008
words mate

got a vote from me

glennpeters:06:58 on 17/10/2008
voted! this is definitely something... rare.. clear,.. different.. it cathces my attention .. winnner! :)



- Glenn Peter Perez

TaraT:04:39 on 17/10/2008
Agree, Different, and intresting.

gry:05:22 on 18/10/2008
supershot

like it

voted

I hope U win

Stormsong:09:05 on 18/10/2008
Creepy, but the abstract quality makes the subject look quite arty. Voted.

Stormsong:02:24 on 19/10/2008
Thank you Mike (Surgeon) for your very encouraging words (and votes!) on my images. I am still at the early stages of my development as a digital photographer, so any constructive criticism is very much appreciated! Good luck for the POTY - pity I can only vote once on any particular image, because this one to me is a winner hands down. Regards, Denise (aka Stormsong).

Surgeon:05:12 on 19/10/2008
Thx Denise

canonuser1:07:20 on 19/10/2008
wrong camera, but good shot anyway

alekos:11:02 on 19/10/2008
very nice and well executed! one vote from me!

aiwayamaha:10:56 on 23/10/2008
Not to keen on the cut of legs and the blue between his legs and the white space behind the back of its back.

aiwayamaha:10:57 on 23/10/2008
Legs are to close together for a fly to stand

lennart:07:51 on 24/10/2008
Snyggt bra komposition och ljus


jansson:01:24 on 28/10/2008
Hehe, nice and close,

mandylivingstead:07:34 on 31/10/2008
wow what a beauty, didnt know that they look like that.

sell it to NG

Voted

Dazrobertson75:07:42 on 31/10/2008
Mikael its in the bag mate, well done. You deserve to win this, as I have said above i love this picture.

salla:06:14 on 02/11/2008
I hold my thumbs for your win

Its a different image and really show how these creatures looks like

Good capture and you recive 1 vot from Finland

Surgeon:06:54 on 02/11/2008
Thanks for your positive comments.


dredd:07:47 on 05/11/2008
a WINNER IN MY EYES

calling:10:07 on 06/11/2008
Best shot of a fly i ever seen

close up and great lightning

go for it you got a vote from south Italy

FelicityAnnA:03:22 on 12/11/2008
Thank you for your kind comment and vote for my entry. It's amazing isn't it to still receive votes after the closing dates. Wish you all the best in the competition.
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