Hoverfly, by Pops
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Pops is our featured photographer on the DPNow Picture of the Day this Monday. Although Pops (real name: Paul) is DPNow's unchallenged garden bird photography maestro - he's had some marvelous jays in his back yard in the last week - he's quite a dab hand at macro work. This shot of a hoverfly, taken with a 60mm Canon EF-S macro lens and extension tube, was discussed with some enthusiasm on the forum just the other day. The use of diffused flash has helped avoid an over-contrasty result. Paul 'only' stopped down to f/8 for this shot, so depth of field is not generous, but the primary detail of the hoverfly's thorax and leading edge of the nearest wing and legs are crisp, which is what matters.
Would you like one of your pictures featured on DPNow's POTD?
We are always on the look out for great pictures posted to the user-galleries here on DPNow. POTDs are selected from the gallery and featured every week day. The gallery facility here is completely free; all you need to do is register as a user on our discussion forum and you will get an automatic 25MB of space, which is good for around 125 pictures uploaded at web resolution, about 200K per picture. At the time of writing we had just nearly 12,500 pictures on the galleries and it's well worth a browse.
Picture of the month
At the end of each month we will select our favourite image of the month and declare a Picture of the Month.
The DPNow Golden Gallery
Our ultimate accolade, the DPNow Golden Gallery, is reserved for what we feel are the very finest images. We invite anyone to submit their pictures for inclusion in the Golden Gallery. Why not have a look at the Golden Gallery submission form? The vast majority are usually rejected, which is why we feel that the ones we do feature are extra special.
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