Bee Macro
Saturday, 17th April 2010
Since it was a beautiful day, Gav and I spent the afternoon at the Rookery in Streatham. Obviously, I took my camera! I also took my macro extension tubes, to see how they faired when trying to take photographs of insects, and much as it proved a challenge - it was worth the effort! I'm certainly happy with this shot here anyway! The focusing isn't perfect - but given how tricky it was to even get a bee in frame without either spooking it, or it fliting off anyway, or hiding in shadow/behind a leaf etc, and with such a narrow DOF; I'm going to let myself off the hook for that - for now, at least! ;)
P.S. Thank you to those of you who sent messages to see if I was okay, after my extended absence on flickr. Sorry I haven't replied to anyone personally - but I really appreciate the concern! I am, however, fine. There has been a lot going on, and there still is, so I can't promise I'll be around on here much - but I will pop by from time to time! xxx
Bee Macro
Saturday, 17th April 2010
Since it was a beautiful day, Gav and I spent the afternoon at the Rookery in Streatham. Obviously, I took my camera! I also took my macro extension tubes, to see how they faired when trying to take photographs of insects, and much as it proved a challenge - it was worth the effort! I'm certainly happy with this shot here anyway! The focusing isn't perfect - but given how tricky it was to even get a bee in frame without either spooking it, or it fliting off anyway, or hiding in shadow/behind a leaf etc, and with such a narrow DOF; I'm going to let myself off the hook for that - for now, at least! ;)
P.S. Thank you to those of you who sent messages to see if I was okay, after my extended absence on flickr. Sorry I haven't replied to anyone personally - but I really appreciate the concern! I am, however, fine. There has been a lot going on, and there still is, so I can't promise I'll be around on here much - but I will pop by from time to time! xxx