Honey bee liked my sugar syrup
Jan 12, 2013 18:45:31 #
Actually did not shoot this with my new first digital, let me explain, this was shot in 1988 in my backyard on a cactus plant, I had a minolta x700 with a 100mm 2.8 macro, if I remember I think was a sigma, I had a flash on both sides about 45 deg. Angle and figured my exsposure using minolta 4 flash meter,with bellows, the emulsion had started to come off in little white specks, in comes my new Sony a77 24.6 mp, 16-80 f4 carl zeiss lens (last week) I put it on a tri-pod in front of my patio door I had a cloudy day with diffused light, I put the bee picture on the floor, turned the screen around so I could see it, and shot it on auto, turning flash off, I was surprised to see no contrast was added then I used photoshop to clean up the white flecked areas.
And thats the rest of the story,
And thats the rest of the story,
Honey bee likes my sugar syrup
Jan 12, 2013 19:56:02 #
I can't imagine trying to deal with flash settings and all the different conditions back in the days of film, I did not shoot macro until after I went digital, without the instant feed back not to mention the ability to discard hundreds of photos, I don't think that I could afford macro.
Jan 13, 2013 11:09:49 #
Blurryeyed wrote:
Right on!! The whole reason digital is so intriguing!!I can't imagine trying to deal with flash settings and all the different conditions back in the days of film, I did not shoot macro until after I went digital, without the instant feed back not to mention the ability to discard hundreds of photos, I don't think that I could afford macro.
Richard
Jan 13, 2013 11:53:33 #
Blurryeyed wrote:
Me too. I remember taking a notebook and recording all that stuff that is now a small part of EXIF data. Just thinking about adjusting the manual flash output alone.... YIKES!I can't imagine trying to deal with flash settings and all the different conditions back in the days of film, I did not shoot macro until after I went digital, without the instant feed back not to mention the ability to discard hundreds of photos, I don't think that I could afford macro.
Jan 13, 2013 19:56:33 #
Jan 13, 2013 23:50:30 #
I forgot about the sugar syrup, about a cup sugar boiled in cup water until it gets kinda thick use a stopper to put on a flower and the honey bees will not move.. its like drugs to them
Jan 18, 2013 02:47:29 #
Blurryeyed wrote:
I can't imagine trying to deal with flash settings and all the different conditions back in the days of film, I did not shoot macro until after I went digital, without the instant feed back not to mention the ability to discard hundreds of photos, I don't think that I could afford macro.
am going back this spring and try an duplicate. The bee with much better equip. And much more depth of field....
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