jedirunner
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So I popped on the cheap canon 50mm macro lens and went outside to get some bee shots. Some of these turned out ok for my experience level at this.
Here's where some help is needed:
But I had to crop far more than I would have liked on these. To get an actually frame-filling bee photo, given that bees hop around flower-to-flower so quickly, I'm finding it hard to get very close with the short lens given a slight fear of getting stung, and how much I have to move the camera to re-position so often.
How would you go about getting better (closer) shots? Would you get a longer macro lens? extension tubes on a "normal" lens? or what other approaches do you take? Or are you the patient type that puts the camera on a tripod, aimed at a certain angle on a certain flower, and wait and watch for a bee to land at just that one spot?
Anyway, here's what I got:
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C&C, comments, suggestions, all appreciated.
Kevin

Here's where some help is needed:
But I had to crop far more than I would have liked on these. To get an actually frame-filling bee photo, given that bees hop around flower-to-flower so quickly, I'm finding it hard to get very close with the short lens given a slight fear of getting stung, and how much I have to move the camera to re-position so often.
How would you go about getting better (closer) shots? Would you get a longer macro lens? extension tubes on a "normal" lens? or what other approaches do you take? Or are you the patient type that puts the camera on a tripod, aimed at a certain angle on a certain flower, and wait and watch for a bee to land at just that one spot?
Anyway, here's what I got:
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5.

C&C, comments, suggestions, all appreciated.
Kevin