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Busy bee

Postby zafra52 on Sun Jun 03, 2012 10:21 am

I was taking a photograph of the flower when
the bee decided to land on it.

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Re: Busy bee

Postby CraigVTR on Sun Jun 03, 2012 12:10 pm

Great capture. love the colours and the processing, the bee is a bonus.8-)
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Re: Busy bee

Postby sirhc55 on Sun Jun 03, 2012 2:37 pm

Now this is what photography is all about. Capturing the moment - a flower to shoot and then the moment of the bee. Colours are brilliant as is the whole pic.
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Re: Busy bee

Postby aim54x on Sun Jun 03, 2012 6:03 pm

As already mentioned this image as great. I love the colours and the all encompassing sharpness. Well done
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Re: Busy bee

Postby Matt. K on Sun Jun 03, 2012 7:02 pm

Wild colours....glorious pic!
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Re: Busy bee

Postby zafra52 on Sun Jun 03, 2012 8:35 pm

Thank you very much for your kind comments.
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Re: Busy bee

Postby biggerry on Sun Jun 03, 2012 9:24 pm

great detail on the wing!nice contrast and colours - my only suggestion would be to soften that BG/OOF by just applying some selective noise reduction
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Re: Busy bee

Postby ian.bertram on Mon Jun 04, 2012 2:02 pm

Bees are a bugger to take. Just when you're set up they fly off!!!
Did you start off with the aim of getting the bee or did you start with the flower and get lucky?
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Re: Busy bee

Postby zafra52 on Sat Jun 09, 2012 7:06 pm

Sorry, my computer broke down again last Monday
so I have very limited web access and definetely no
way of editing images.

I foucused on the flower and I waited for one of the
bees to land,and it happened.
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