robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

I had my 5DIV and Tamron 180 macro to take shots of an Iris. I saw a butterfly and walked over to the plants it had been near, but it was gone. There were several bees around. One pot the plant had died and I keep watering it to see if something else will sprout or just to get the dead remains to rot for nutrients for the next thing to go in the pot. This was right after I watered it and some water had still not soaked in and the bees were landing on debris to drink. I noticed they stayed still for sometimes 10 seconds or more while they drank so I focused on the body of this one, did a shot and he was still there so I kept the shutter button half down, leaned back an inch or so to get the foreground in focus but the bee out of focus (I was on single shot focus.) pressed the shutter with the camera on "silent burst" and leaned a couple inches closer so at the end of the burst the bee was again out of focus but the back ground was in focus. An 8 shot burst. Then I ran it from LR>PS>LR, tweaked it a bit color and contrast wise. I did clone out some stark white spots caused by reflections being in the same place on all 8 frames.

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DOOK Loc: Maclean, Australia

Great shot, Jerry--super detail on double download.

CLF Loc: Raleigh, NC

Jerry, excellent photo/stack.

Greg

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Thanks very much.

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Thanks a lot.

rwilson1942 Loc: Houston, TX

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

I forgot to put in the info. I was using a Tamron 180 macro but I had a Kenko Pro 300 1.4x on it so it is 252 mm.

Dixiegirl Loc: Alabama gulf coast

Super stacking, Jerry, with great detail!

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Thanks so much.