To bee or not to bee?
It has begun.
It’s in your doorstep, it’s in your garden, it’s basically everywhere…
The Macro Season is here!
What does this picture tell to you, what language does it speak? Doesn’t it tell, that flowers are blossoming, the winter is over and summer is near?
Take a look into the bee’s legs, there is some pollen in there :-) Spring flowers are offering pollen and nectar for bees and other insects. -No, it ain’t for free. They have to pay for it by pollinating the flowers.
Technical
Macro 90mm, 1/500, F25, off-camera flash
You are the king of macro! Can’t get over how well you nail the sharpness and also get just the right DOF.
As for the message in the picture, I must say that a flower or something green would bring home the message of summer. As it is, it’s an excellent bee portrait!
Please go easy on the watermark… it distracts a little from the subject. ;)
Thank you, but let’s face some facts too :-D
This picture is cropped a bit, and that gives an impression of greater DOF. You know that laws of optics matter here and you just cannot add DOF out of nowhere – you have to compromise. Good, and also very common way, is to shoot in smaller aspect ratio and then crop a bit.
Yes, flowers are in my “got to get” -list. Now we seem to be out of stock but I assume there will be plenty in few weeks. Until that, I have to stick with these garbage cans :-D
You are right, those watermarks suck and I replaced the pictures. Any ideas to do it better? Or is there any sense in it at all?
Well, I have watermarks in my images but I just try to blend them in the image so that it doesn’t distract. A change of opacity for the watermark layer is all it takes – the opacity varies from 3 to 13% in my blog images and sometimes I move the layer around so it doesn’t overlap the important bits in the image. It’s probably a bit paranoid but on the other hand, it’s also a cheap insurance!
Oh something I’ve been meaning to tell you for a long time but always forgotten. So finally… I don’t know if this is any use to you or not but it’s a cool page anyway: bugguide.net
Seems to be(e) a cool site, thnx! Have to explore it more closely soon.