These pictures are awesome! I especially like the bee in the last one.
Nicely done! Can't imagine them better if you had used a higher resolution sensor than what you are shooting with.
Paul, just another one of your spectacular series. Just amazing your images of the bees. Thanks for sharing.
Ballard
Loc: Grass Valley, California
CHG_CANON wrote:
Today's selection of bees and flowers intermingle a variety of Canon L-series lenses with an EOS 5DIII. All images were captured in RAW and processed in Adobe Lightroom 6 with additional noise processing in Topaz DeNoise 6. Use the URL links that are the titles of each image for access to the EXIF details.
Busy Bees by
Paul Sager, on Flickr
To my eyes, the differences are the quality of the pose rather than the resolving power of a macro lens vs an extended zoom.
Chicago bee and flower These images date from 2014 through 2018, all from roughly the same field of wildflowers managed by the Chicago Park Service in Lincoln Park along Lake Michigan.
Busy BeeRegarding pose, my preferred view of bees / insects is eye level with the insect approaching the camera.
Bee in pollen The camera / lenses are mounted to a tripod with either a ball-head or gimbal.
Chicago bee and flower When the flower blossoms, the bee will come.
Chicago Bee These images are sized to fill your wide-screen display. Try using <F11> to maximize your browser window for the full effect. If the images overshoot your display, such as a laptop, just click on the image or the URL link and they'll resize to your screen from the host Flickr site. You can click a bit further into the image details on the Flickr page, if desired. EXIF data is available from the host Flickr pages as well. On the Flickr site, use your <L>key for Large and the <F11> for the full-screen.
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Beautiful Macro images. Great work.
CHG_CANON wrote:
Today's selection of bees and flowers intermingle a variety of Canon L-series lenses with an EOS 5DIII. All images were captured in RAW and processed in Adobe Lightroom 6 with additional noise processing in Topaz DeNoise 6. Use the URL links that are the titles of each image for access to the EXIF details.
Busy Bees by
Paul Sager, on Flickr
To my eyes, the differences are the quality of the pose rather than the resolving power of a macro lens vs an extended zoom.
Chicago bee and flower These images date from 2014 through 2018, all from roughly the same field of wildflowers managed by the Chicago Park Service in Lincoln Park along Lake Michigan.
Busy BeeRegarding pose, my preferred view of bees / insects is eye level with the insect approaching the camera.
Bee in pollen The camera / lenses are mounted to a tripod with either a ball-head or gimbal.
Chicago bee and flower When the flower blossoms, the bee will come.
Chicago Bee These images are sized to fill your wide-screen display. Try using <F11> to maximize your browser window for the full effect. If the images overshoot your display, such as a laptop, just click on the image or the URL link and they'll resize to your screen from the host Flickr site. You can click a bit further into the image details on the Flickr page, if desired. EXIF data is available from the host Flickr pages as well. On the Flickr site, use your <L>key for Large and the <F11> for the full-screen.
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OMG those are magnificent Paul.
Excellent set, Paul, with several having a real wow factor.
Great series Paul. Always learn from your posts! Thanks!
Thank you srg, Earnest, jimvanells, Susan, Hereford, gener202002, Paul, Bill_R, Moondoggie, Ballard, khildy, Ernesto, joecichjr, Kip, John, DaveJ! I found I have a lot of bee pictures kind of just gathering digital dust in my LR catalog. Glad you liked these.
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