Honeybees and Camillias
Feb 11, 2013 13:22:40 #
Here are some busy honeybees I photographed at the Bayou Bend Gardens in Houston, TX a week and a half ago. They were really zipping around in the flowers and it was tough work to capture them with my D7000 and 105mm macro lens. Hope you like them. Any comments or pointers are welcome.
Feb 11, 2013 14:17:09 #
I like them all. Gorgeous flower color + the light on the bee's wings in #1 is wonderful. Most of the posts I've looked at in true-macro forum (not that many) have been "laboratory" setting so it's cool to see some from someone who went to a lot more effort to get the shot!
Feb 11, 2013 19:17:17 #
Your bee photographs are close-ups, not macro-photographs. Get closer!
If you want to know HOW close, set your lens to Manual focus, turn collar to Minimum Focusing Distance, and move ENTIRE camera/lens combo in-&-out toward subject. When in focus, take your photograph. This is true macro-photography. Your working Distance (lens front element to subject) will be about 6.2-inches.
If you want to know HOW close, set your lens to Manual focus, turn collar to Minimum Focusing Distance, and move ENTIRE camera/lens combo in-&-out toward subject. When in focus, take your photograph. This is true macro-photography. Your working Distance (lens front element to subject) will be about 6.2-inches.
Feb 11, 2013 19:20:25 #
Linda From Maine wrote:
By far, MOST of the insect & spider macro-photography on this forum is hand-held, captured in the field.Most of the posts I've looked at in true-macro forum have been "laboratory" setting so it's cool to see some from someone who went to a lot more effort to get the shot!
Feb 11, 2013 20:59:47 #
Nikonian72 wrote:
Linda From Maine wrote:
By far, MOST of the insect & spider macro-photography on this forum is hand-held, captured in the field.Most of the posts I've looked at in true-macro forum have been "laboratory" setting so it's cool to see some from someone who went to a lot more effort to get the shot!
Concur. Yourself, Hangman, Blurryeyed, Tinusbum, & Fstop22 are the biggest contributors and I would guess 95%+ are hand-held and in the field. I probably left someone out. Sorry.
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