Macro photo: portrait of house fly (1780 x 1780)

My first insect "studio stack". This is large fly of some common species.

Gear: "snowflake" macro setup, containing Canon Powershot A650 and reversely mounted lens Helios 44M-5 as magnifier (described in article about snowflake macro photography) + small desktop tripod (Continent TR-F7).

Light: ambient daylight in room + direct sunlight from left side through sheet of white paper. Background: light blue book cover.

Source images: series of 64 photos (16 groups with different focus, and each group contained 4 identical images for averaging). After RAW processing, i averaged images in groups and then do focus stacking.

Eye details in 1:1 scale:

Snowflake photo: Twelve months (1765 x 1324)

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Another 12-sided snowflake. This crystal was bigger, around 5 millimeters in diameter, and slightly harder to process (complicated shape and many ice debris in close proximity). Glass background with back light, additional lens Helios 44M-5, January 2014, Moscow. 8 RAWs averaged.

This is alternate color version:

Snowflake photo: Twelve months (alternate). Full size: 1765 x 1324 pixels

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This snowflake available as desktop wallpaper in wallpapers section:

Previous 12-sided snowflake: Wheel of time. And here you'll find very big snowflake with twelve arms, captured on dark woolen fabric.

If you want to see more snowflakes, you can browse through all snowflake pictures.
And here is article about snowflake macro photography.