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Hoverfly in flight, how did he do it?

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Bas Hamstra Senior Member • Posts: 2,069
Hoverfly in flight, how did he do it?

Yes, yes, it's flashed, I know. But how did he do it?  Anyway it amazed me at the time I added it to my Flickr favorites, and in fact I still think it's awesome. I asked the guy how he did it but no answer yet. You can see the facets in the eyes of the freaking flyinghoverfly

https://www.flickr.com/photos/191923630@N04/50885733387/in/faves-132583515@N03/

So maybe we can speculate a bit, for fun, and learn from it on the way? Probably no on camera flash, so trigger with softbox? But how do you focus? Bursts? Spray and pray? But how could a flash keep up with that?

So...what's theory on this?

Kind regards,

Bas

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