Carpenter Bee

[nikki_hd]

I took this picture of a (giant!) carpenter bee in my front yard last week. I've only been playing around with my old Canon EOS D10 for a few weeks now and learning how manual settings work, but I thought this shot came out pretty nice. I would have liked to have pulled the viewer more into the bee's eye, but feel that the photo pulls you to the flower first. I may be wrong about that in general, as I'm still trying to train myself to critique photography. Any advice or comments would be welcome and appreciated! Thanks!

 

[JacaRanda]

Hi Nikki, are you able to selectively increase the exposure on just the bee?

 

[nikki_hd]

Is that something that I could do on Lightroom? We've got it installed on my husband's computer, but I haven't tried it out yet. I've just been editing using iPhoto on my laptop, which obviously is pretty limited in it's abilities. That's a good suggestion though! I kept wanting to lighten the photo because the bee seemed a bit dark, but every time I adjusted the exposure, I lost color in the flower!

Thanks for the idea!