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05-Mar-2020 jimmsp

05 Honey Bee - A Force on a Small Scale

Madera Canyon

A bee collecting nectar from an early spring poppy.

Canon EOS 90D ,Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM
1/200s f/18.0 at 100.0mm iso2000 full exif

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Canon Image Challenge10-Mar-2020 01:52
Thanks, Jim. Bees are too busy working to stop and pose for us. Sometimes I point the camera at a flower and wait for one to visit. I generally consider pictures of them to be good when I can see fuzz, hooks, and wing details.

Dave
Canon Image Challenge09-Mar-2020 14:24
Dave - nice addition. Thanks.

Jim
Canon Image Challenge09-Mar-2020 02:33
I'll throw one out there (in Pending) for comparison in case our guest would like another example to help them elaborate.

https://pbase.com/image/170498064

Dave
Canon Image Challenge08-Mar-2020 16:49
Some followup thoughts - after cropping, this is still 23 M pixels in size. I would have preferred to shoot at a faster shutter speed, say 1/500 sec or better 1/1000 sec for the moving bee; but the ISO would have been too high for me for the bee. I could have shot f/22 with a flash for both better DOF and for better sharpness; but I preferred the natural light for this shot.

Jim
Canon Image Challenge08-Mar-2020 14:48
Not sure what you mean by "out of focus or over magnified" as this was shot with a macro lens. Aperture was f/18 which would give a reasonable DOF for a macro. Much or most of the bee is in focus, and it is minimally cropped simply for composition.
With a moving bee, there is no way to shoot for focus stacking.

Jim
Guest 07-Mar-2020 16:45
A little out of focus or over-magnified?
Canon Image Challenge06-Mar-2020 14:26
Paul - this is a honey bee, as our local naturalist would call it. But it is probably "africanized". We don't have full blooded "killer bees" here. But these honey bees that we do have are a bit more aggressive than they used to be.

Jim
Canon Image Challenge06-Mar-2020 12:43
Very nice capture and PP. Is that a honey bee or a killer bee? I can never tell the difference... unless one is chasing me and I’m running for my life. ;-}
Paul
Canon Image Challenge06-Mar-2020 04:45
T - thanks. The morning was rather quiet and the sun was out, so it was a good day for shooting. The winds came up around noon, making macros very hard. This little guy wandered around the flower, so just kept shooting until he reached the position shown here. For ISO 2000, I let Lightroom handle about half of it, and Topaz Denoise AI got the rest. I used Topaz Sharpen AI to finish it up.

Jim
Canon Image Challenge06-Mar-2020 04:35
Damn! You finally nailed it...seriously. You have done some bee shots, (as have I), and yours generally have been better than most....but this, this is penultimate Bee image...studying your EXIF...all look fine, but I was surprised that you could get away with iso2000 so absolutely well....with my 77D I can't really do 1600...not liek this.

The 90D is producing for you!

Traveller