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A couple bee images, front profile and then side. You can see the bees tongue in the front profile!
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7392/9...a124a76d_b.jpg
2013_08_10_2642_LR_upd_8x10 by dthrog00, on Flickr
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3768/9...e62e1f73_b.jpg
2013_08_10_2644_LR_upd by dthrog00, on Flickr
Thanks for viewing.
Dave
Looks like a good week for bees. Here is one from Friday morning.
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5483/9...9e6693cb_b.jpg
Morning Dew -5799 by westmichigan, on Flickr
Dave, sorry it took me so long to respond. I really just use the focus as close as you can to the subject, move your camera either forward or backward, and fire off a series of shots. Usually I have good luck getting most of the bug or flower in focus as I move. I sometimes use a stick, branch or fence to stabilize myself or my lens. I adjust one of the photos in LR then apply to the rest. Then I use photoshop to align the layers, then blend the layers with stacking. After you do it a couple times it is actually pretty easy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dave Throgmartin
Here are a couple shots of a bee I captured last week. I stacked 6 shots each. I see that I did miss a shot where the focus isn't crisp on both shots.
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-E...36988-Edit.jpg
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-l...37056-Edit.jpg
Joel, that was a cool looking moth wing!
Andy, lovely flower!
Kombi, I really like your Lily. Very nice DOF!
Watchman, you have some very lovely flower shots also.
Dave, the Damsels a great. Fun looking at those alien heads. Your bee shots are great! Bees do have a very strange tongue.
Pat, spectacular shot! Catching them in the morning and wet is the way to go. Looks like he is sticking his tongue out at you. :D
I've taken a few lately that I've been meaning to share. All were taken with the 6D and 100mm f/2.8L.
http://patricklandy.com/wp-content/u.../2000-0598.jpg
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2807/9...41e859bb_b.jpg
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5492/9...43dd789d_b.jpg
Little experiment here. EOS-M, EF adapter, stacked 12mm and 25mm extension tubes on EF 40mm f2.8 lens, 270 EX II flash, manual mode, manual focus (by moving the camera), f16, 1/200s, +2EV, 100ISO, hand held.
Orange Peel and Seed
http://bimmermail.com/macros/o-peel01-md.jpg
Mark, I would never have guessed that you took that with the pancake lens. Great creativity.
I thought I had found an unusual species of bee on my buddleja bush, until I saw it hovering. Bees can't do that. This one is a hoverfly that has evolved to mimic the honey bee.
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7455/9...a66681d3_b.jpg
Hoverfly on Buddleja by Andrew Stringer, on Flickr
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5500/9...38975062_b.jpg
Hoverfly on Buddleja by Andrew Stringer, on Flickr
Expect to see a lot of similar shots like this pop into this topic in the near future.
http://i.minus.com/iuYYlsEEz4IGA.jpg
A couple of weeks ago, my wife was out in the garden and came rushing back inside to tell me there were a couple of praying mantises in the yard. We put them in a terrarium so our daughter's kindergarten class could have a look. These shots are of the male, taken after we released them back into the yard.
"Mantis"
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5527/1...37723a4b_c.jpg
EOS 1D X, MP-E 65mm f/2.8 1-5x Macro @ ~3x, 1/250 s, f/14, ISO 400, MT-24EX
"Mantis Prey"
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5548/1...bbfd6916_c.jpg
EOS 1D X, EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM, 1/160 s, f/11, ISO 6400
Thanks for looking!
Nice shots Neuro....I just received my MP-E 65 and MT EX 24 flash from Adorama (found a good deal on a used system) and I took this today hand held. Man, the depth of field is so thin with this lens I can see a focusing rail in my future. No other way to do stack focus. This is a single image.
1D MKIV + MP E 65mm @ 2X
ISO 800
1/320
f/16
MT EX 24 macro flash on manual @ 1/64 power
http://joeleadephotography.zenfolio....46705862-5.jpg