Took me a few to catch the little fellas in flight and to get 'em in focus.
Regards, Al Kidner.
Wild Flowers and Bees.
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Al Kidner
Wild Flowers and Bees.
Here is a pic of some bees into "Ragweed" in NZ. Was a fair way up in the mountains having a breather.
Took me a few to catch the little fellas in flight and to get 'em in focus.
Regards, Al Kidner.
Took me a few to catch the little fellas in flight and to get 'em in focus.
Regards, Al Kidner.
Good Morning Alan
Nice photo and one of my favourite subjects.
Bees can be a real challenge - although that goes for most flying insects.
I use to shoot them using a shortish lens - thinking I needed to get close and thus required a wide angle. Now I shoot them with my "all purpose" 90-300. Lay on the ground and use my camera pack as a support or use the tripod with none of the legs extended. On the downside the shallow depth of field of the long lens makes things a little difficult plus I find I have to maually focus otherwise the autofocus continually hunts.
Looks like you had the shutter speed fairly high as the wings are nicely stopped.
The combination with the flowers in full bloom really does look good. Really great photo.
Nice photo and one of my favourite subjects.
Bees can be a real challenge - although that goes for most flying insects.
I use to shoot them using a shortish lens - thinking I needed to get close and thus required a wide angle. Now I shoot them with my "all purpose" 90-300. Lay on the ground and use my camera pack as a support or use the tripod with none of the legs extended. On the downside the shallow depth of field of the long lens makes things a little difficult plus I find I have to maually focus otherwise the autofocus continually hunts.
Looks like you had the shutter speed fairly high as the wings are nicely stopped.
The combination with the flowers in full bloom really does look good. Really great photo.
Grahame.
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"Unfortunately, the equating of simplicity with truth doesn't often work in real life. It doesn't often work in science, either." Dr Len Fisher.
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Al Kidner
Thanks lads. Yes it's one of my fav pics from the trip as well. Not just a photo but what and where i was when it was taken.
The camera used is my 6 month old Canon 350D (8mp) that came in a twin lens kit (for the sale I think) and I'm glad I spent the $$ as its paid for itself already. The lens combo was a 18-55 and a 75-300.
When shooting this pic I had the 300 on and set to auto. The joys of Digital these days is that you can rattle off a heap and cut away the ones that look out of kilter/focus. I ran about 20 photos and only kept 4. This being the 2nd best.
al kidner.
The camera used is my 6 month old Canon 350D (8mp) that came in a twin lens kit (for the sale I think) and I'm glad I spent the $$ as its paid for itself already. The lens combo was a 18-55 and a 75-300.
When shooting this pic I had the 300 on and set to auto. The joys of Digital these days is that you can rattle off a heap and cut away the ones that look out of kilter/focus. I ran about 20 photos and only kept 4. This being the 2nd best.
al kidner.
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The shallow depth of field makes things hell tricky
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