Bee in Flight

PixelRabbit · Apr 1, 2012

Found this guy when I was out for a walk yesterday. First time I caught the wings instead of a blur

C&C always welcome and appreciated.

WesternGuy · Apr 1, 2012

Great capture - you are right - don't often get the wings in flight, just a blur. My only comment is that the sky looks a little too blue - I really don't remember Ontario skies being that blue, but then it has been a long time - :sexywink:

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WesternGuy

PixelRabbit · Apr 1, 2012

Thanks WesternGuy

Good point on the sky, it was a beautiful blue with lots of gorgeous white clouds but perhaps not THAT blue lol
I'll lay with it after and bring the saturation down a bit and see what I come up with.

greybeard · Apr 1, 2012

I like the photo but the sky is tooooo blue but, that has already been said. What was your shutter speed?

J_T · Apr 1, 2012

Nice capture, but the bee looks a bit OOF?

PixelRabbit · Apr 2, 2012

Thanks Greybeard and J_T.
It was shot at 1/1600 F6.3 ISO 250 and my lens was maxed out @ 200mm which is why it isn't über sharp.

SCraig · Apr 2, 2012

Nice catch, Judi. I woudn't blame your lens completely for the lack of sharpness. Even at 1/1600 with that narrow a field of view the subject doesn't have to move very far for it to be noticeable. I know someone on another forum that shoots a lot of birds and I noticed yesterday that he shoots most of them at 1/8000.

PixelRabbit · Apr 2, 2012

Hey Scott, thanks

Good point, I def could have used a higher speed, sun is shining this morning so I'll be out critter hunting today and I'll try it out.
I haven't tried really high speeds yet, 1/8000 ... Wow haven't gone there yet with my bird shots, might have to play around with those kind of speeds and see what I end up with.

pgriz · Apr 2, 2012

Judi, as a political comment, the sky is that blue because the Tories decreed it to be so. :lol:

Great bee shot. Darn, you're raising the bar high. As Scott has noted, the DOF is very thin, and you managed to get it pretty much on target. Manual or autofocus?

Frequency · Apr 2, 2012

Excellent shot.... i would request to reduce that blue a bit

PixelRabbit · Apr 2, 2012

pgriz said:
Judi, as a political comment, the sky is that blue because the Tories decreed it to be so.

Great bee shot. Darn, you're raising the bar high. As Scott has noted, the DOF is very thin, and you managed to get it pretty much on target. Manual or autofocus?

lol Love it!
Thanks Pgriz

Auto focus/ High speed/ Al Servo and tracking the bee (lol if you can call it that... it's a bee and rather random) doing short bursts. I have many cute bee butt shots! lol

Frequency said:
Excellent shot.... i would request to reduce that blue a bit

Thanks Frequency

WesternGuy · Apr 4, 2012

pgriz said:
Judi, as a political comment, the sky is that blue because the Tories decreed it to be so.

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pgriz, best laugh I have had all day, maybe all week - so is this what we can call "Harper blue". :lmao:

WesternGuy

P.S. Sorry Judi, not meaning to hijack your thread, but I couldn't resist the comment (LOL)