No Ordinary Bee
What makes this bumble bee on currant bloom different is that I used my flash at 174000-sec from around 20-feet away, as "fill flash." Only experience photographers will realize how ground breaking the ability to synchronize the flash and shutter at such high speeds is. Most have heard of "fill flash", which in the case lights more details in the bee's black area. Also, the cottonwood pollen (the white silky strands) is more lit.
Tomorrow I'll be shooting flowers, where I can shoot the flower at 1/4000-sec to make the background almost black and the flash lights the flower pedals to show them in great detail and color. We'll see....
No Ordinary Bee
What makes this bumble bee on currant bloom different is that I used my flash at 174000-sec from around 20-feet away, as "fill flash." Only experience photographers will realize how ground breaking the ability to synchronize the flash and shutter at such high speeds is. Most have heard of "fill flash", which in the case lights more details in the bee's black area. Also, the cottonwood pollen (the white silky strands) is more lit.
Tomorrow I'll be shooting flowers, where I can shoot the flower at 1/4000-sec to make the background almost black and the flash lights the flower pedals to show them in great detail and color. We'll see....