Pollen Covered Blue Mason Bee II
While trying to photograph this male Blue Mason on a Dandelion he crawled onto my finger. After working with a critter for a few minutes they acclimate to me and stop viewing me as a threat. Small solitary bees like this one can feel the heat coming off of my skin and will climb on to get warm.
Tech Specs: Canon 80D (F11, 1/125, ISO 200) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (around 3x) + a diffused MT-26EX-RT with a Kaiser adjustable flash shoe on the "A" head (the key), E-TTL metering, -1/3 FEC). This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held. In post I used Topaz Denoise AI and Clarity in that order. Shutter and ISO set to expose the sky in the background.
Pollen Covered Blue Mason Bee II
While trying to photograph this male Blue Mason on a Dandelion he crawled onto my finger. After working with a critter for a few minutes they acclimate to me and stop viewing me as a threat. Small solitary bees like this one can feel the heat coming off of my skin and will climb on to get warm.
Tech Specs: Canon 80D (F11, 1/125, ISO 200) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (around 3x) + a diffused MT-26EX-RT with a Kaiser adjustable flash shoe on the "A" head (the key), E-TTL metering, -1/3 FEC). This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held. In post I used Topaz Denoise AI and Clarity in that order. Shutter and ISO set to expose the sky in the background.