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Backyard Bees

Postby Wink on Sun Oct 14, 2012 1:56 pm

Took the macro lens into the backyard today to capture some bees at work before the lawn mower attacks...

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Postby Geoff M on Sun Oct 14, 2012 2:00 pm

Great work Adam. The second would be my pick of the bunch, nice angle and composition.
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Re: Backyard Bees

Postby Wink on Sun Oct 14, 2012 2:01 pm

Thanks Geoff. That's my favourite too. :)
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Re: Backyard Bees

Postby zafra52 on Sun Oct 14, 2012 6:31 pm

Very goo work!
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Re: Backyard Bees

Postby Remorhaz on Sun Oct 14, 2012 8:00 pm

Nice work Adam - #2
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Postby chrisk on Sun Oct 14, 2012 10:01 pm

Yeah #2 is a ripper ! Harder than it looks to get these little buggers in perfect focus and get good backgrounds so you did tremendously well.
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Postby SloppyBob on Mon Oct 15, 2012 3:24 pm

My favourite is #4 bit of an action shot as he is taking off. You can see the pollen on his face
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Re: Backyard Bees

Postby ATJ on Mon Oct 15, 2012 5:12 pm

The first is my favourite and then #2. Great detail in both of them.
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Re: Backyard Bees

Postby stubbsy on Mon Oct 15, 2012 6:11 pm

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A great group of images, but it's #2 for me as well. I think it's a more novel take on the shot and is stronger as a result - we tend to look at these guys from above.
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Re: Backyard Bees

Postby Wink on Mon Oct 15, 2012 7:28 pm

Thanks.

I kept the POV in the forefront of my mind as I'm always hearing/reading people say to change the POV to something other than what we normally see. It was easier said than done though... I used live view and manual focus to try and get the camera as low as I could.
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Re: Backyard Bees

Postby aim54x on Tue Oct 16, 2012 8:22 am

Very nice work on getting so close!
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