Bumblebee

[blair]

I was playing around with shooting at very high shutter speed and caught this guy:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v500/HBlair/IMG_0013_2.jpg



Let me know what you think,
Blair

[phishphorphun]

It's very exciting when you can stop the wings of a bee. I think running this through levels will help get rid of some of the background noise and create sharper contrast in the details of the bee.

[alanhill]

Brilliant! How in heaven's name did you get it in focus?

Alan

[Ibn]

Nice capture. Looks like it was cropped pretty heavily from a much bigger picture.

[phishphorphun]

Nice capture. Looks like it was cropped pretty heavily from a much bigger picture.


I agree. Just tried to get more out of it. But too much noise and artifacts to improve.

[blair]

Thanks Bobby!

Alan,
Thanks! It only took me taking over 100 photos of them before I got one that was in focus. The auto focus wouldn't focus on them because they are so small. I had to focus manually. I set the focus on an object that was about the same distance away as they were coming to me and started shooting. I finally got this photo but the bee was moving very quickly. He was in the upper right corner of the frame when I caught him.

Thanks again,
Blair

[blair]

Thanks Eric and yes it was cropped from a much larger photo. They move so fast I had to zoom out to see them long enough to get one in the frame.