Scott Thompson aka macrojunkie
A cold bumble bee refueling 1X life size
All canon gear - MPE-65 - MT-24ex - 400D - 2x gary fong diffusers
I found a cold bumble bee today clinging on to a flower in my garden.I quickly ran in and got my camera.I grabbed a stone from the garden and put a small blob of honey on it.I put the stone down on top of a garden table.I picked off the flower with the cold bee on and nudge it on to the stone.It smelt the honey and walked towards it.While holding the camera with my right hand i used my left hand to hold a leaf behind the bee.This is how i got the green background.After the bee re-fueled on honey it gave me about 1 minute of shooting time before it flew off.Heres 1 of the shots i got..iv not had chance to edit the other higher mag shots yet.
as usual shots taken with canon 400d - canon mpe-65 - canon mt-24ex with 2x gary fong diffusers
f/11 - shutterspeed 200 - iso 100- fec on the flash was set to on -2/3
for this shot i was about 2:1 life size.
A cold bumble bee refueling 1X life size
All canon gear - MPE-65 - MT-24ex - 400D - 2x gary fong diffusers
I found a cold bumble bee today clinging on to a flower in my garden.I quickly ran in and got my camera.I grabbed a stone from the garden and put a small blob of honey on it.I put the stone down on top of a garden table.I picked off the flower with the cold bee on and nudge it on to the stone.It smelt the honey and walked towards it.While holding the camera with my right hand i used my left hand to hold a leaf behind the bee.This is how i got the green background.After the bee re-fueled on honey it gave me about 1 minute of shooting time before it flew off.Heres 1 of the shots i got..iv not had chance to edit the other higher mag shots yet.
as usual shots taken with canon 400d - canon mpe-65 - canon mt-24ex with 2x gary fong diffusers
f/11 - shutterspeed 200 - iso 100- fec on the flash was set to on -2/3
for this shot i was about 2:1 life size.