Some Bees From Me

Had a go at doing bees on Friday in the garden, these are cropped, and probably not PP'ed perfectly, the exposure was a bit tricky, as I had the under expose quite a bit in order not to completely blow out the flowers, unfortunately this has made them a bit noisy,

What do you think?

Comments Welcome

The second is my faverate. Nice compostion and the flowers look good as well.

Morris
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You did a nice job here, well done.

Thanks for sharing.

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Morris and ****

Thanks for your comments, The second is my favourite as well, had another go today, but didn't get anything particularly good, bit too windy really.

morris said:

The second is my faverate. Nice compostion and the flowers look
good as well.

Morris

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Rikkengaa **** said:

You did a nice job here, well done.

Thanks for sharing.

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Well done. I have been trying to capture bumble bees in flight for ages and never quite done it.
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All are stunning ! How did you do it ? Very well done.
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Very nice pictures. Second is my fovorite too.

Cheers Thomas
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Hi Everybody

Thanks for your positive comments.

For those interested, here's how I did the photo's. I like to say there's some secret method, but there isn't. All were handheld, I tried manual focus, but couldn't do it fast enough, bees don't hang about, so basically I put the camera onto autofocus, either AF-S or AF-C, and tracked them as they moved from flower to flower, it took about a 100 shots over about an hour or so, to get about 15-20 possibles, and probably about 10 keepers.

There's a bit of luck involved

Equipment used:

D50
Tamron 90 SP Di
SB600, mounted on Camera

Picture 1
Manual
1/350 - F16
Flash
i-TTL
-0.3
AF-C

Picture 2
Manual
1/350 - F13
Flash
i-TTL
-0.3
AF-S

Picture 3
Manual
1/350 - F13
Flash
i-TTL
-0.7
AF-S

Cheers

Chris

..and thanks for the run down.

Thanks Anto1