Fly Tying Photos

[Colweb78]

My phone never seems to want to focus on my fly in the vice and I wondered if anyone had any tips?
I tend to tie smaller (14-20) and even the best photos seem slightly off. I have more luck putting it flat on the table over a piece of paper but that makes it harder for friends to give feedback on my work.

Thanks for any advice!

 

[dudemanspecial]

Put a piece of light colored, but not white, construction paper behind your vise so that blocks everything out of the background when you zoom in on your fly.

 

[wildtrout2]

My phone never seems to want to focus on my fly in the vice and I wondered if anyone had any tips?


Thanks for any advice!

What phone are you using?

 

[FollowTheBlueLines]

I've found that taking a photo with my iPhone zoomed out, but focused, and then cropping the photo to the fly has given me the best results. Also, as others mentioned, have something in the background directly behind it.

 

[Colweb78]

What phone are you using?

New-ish Iphone, also seems to want find something further away to focus on

 

[poopdeck]

I prefer a dark color background. The white picks up odd bands of shadings from the various lights in my basement. All of these are with a really old iPhone. As others say, there is a sweet spot on how far to hold the camera from the fly. Sounds to me your to close if it won’t focus. Back the camera up until it can focus on the fly. Use the crop feature to fill the fly to the frame. To much crop makes a crappy picture so find the sweet spot between distance and crop.

 

[Bamboozle]

I prefer a dark color background. The white picks up odd bands of shadings from the various lights in my basement. All of these are with a really old iPhone. As others say, there is a sweet spot on how far to hold the camera from the fly. Sounds to me your to close if it won’t focus. Back the camera up until it can focus on the fly. Use the crop feature to fill the fly to the frame. To much crop makes a crappy picture so find the sweet spot between distance and crop.

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Nice flies!!

 

[lars]

no expert here, but it seems to me that you're better off not using the zoom. take the picture without zoom and then crop it by editing.

 

[salmo]

New-ish Iphone, also seems to want find something further away to focus on

If you put your finger on the image of the fly on your screen it will focus better.

 

[poopdeck]

Nice flies!!

Thanks!

no expert here, but it seems to me that you're better off not using the zoom. take the picture without zoom and then crop it by editing.

Excellent point! Do not use any zoom on the camera when taking the picture. Have the zoom all the way out (no zoom) and manually move the camera closer or farther away from the fly until the camera will focus on its own.

 

[Bamboozle]

Don't laugh, but I never use my phone camera...

However, my other cameras all have a dedicated macro mode which is what I use for close-close-ups. Don't phone cameras have macro mode??

 

[lars]

Thanks!

Excellent point! Do not use any zoom on the camera when taking the picture. Have the zoom all the way out (no zoom) and manually move the camera closer or farther away from the fly until the camera will focus on its own.

i realized looking back at images i've posted where i did use the zoom don't look anywhere near as sharp as ones i didn't.

 

[nfrechet]

i too dont use my iphone 15 pro to take fly photos

i use a nikon coolpix s9900 for all of my photos and i think i get some good results

 

[nfrechet]

iphone

nikon

 

[JimNovo]

iphone

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nikon

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Which background is truer to what your eye sees?

 

[hooker-of-men]

New-ish Iphone, also seems to want find something further away to focus on

Post some photos to troubleshoot?

 

[hooker-of-men]

My phone has a preset zoom: .7x, 1x, or 2x. The 2x works well for fly pics. However, I can also manually pinch with two fingers on the screen to zoom in further or fine tune the frame. If I use that method, the picture quality looks terrible.

 

[troutbert]

What lighting do you all use for fly tying photos?

Are you using flash? Or a lamp(s) shining light from the side? Or both?

 

[Bamboozle]

I seem to notice a common theme as evidenced by the photos posted so far...

The better the tier, the better the photos.

Allow me to offer evidence: 😉

 

[nfrechet]

Which background is truer to what your eye sees?

both the same background but the nikon is truer in color

my photo setup. nothing fancy