Some bees

Lord Vetinari

Some bee shots from yesterday.

Brian V.

Nomada bee on rhodie petal



Miner bee (I think) in potentilla flower





Miner bee (I think) in cornflower

rhermans

Brian, I'm sure you've got more insects where you are than anyone else in the world.

Great series as always

Lord Vetinari

rhermans wrote:

Brian, I'm sure you've got more insects where you are than anyone else in the world.

Great series as always

Thanks ronny
Suspect it's more of a case that I go looking for them more than anyone else in the world

Brian V.

DaddyO

Yet another nice set. thumb

Lord Vetinari

DaddyO wrote:

Yet another nice set. thumb

Thanks for looking and commenting
Brian V.

Skippy

Lord Vetinari wrote:

Some bee shots from yesterday.

Brian V.

Nomada bee on rhodie petal



Miner bee (I think) in potentilla flower

Miner bee (I think) in cornflower

Brian the Nomada Bee has beautiful eyes.
Love the markings ..... Skippy
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Lord Vetinari

Skippy wrote:

Brian the Nomada Bee has beautiful eyes.
Love the markings ..... Skippy
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Thanks Skippy - not many of the UK bees have visible eye markings like these - most are just very dark.
Brian v.

Mark Edell

I just noticed that we use the exact same set up. So my shots should look just as good as yours, right? NO!!

I love the colors in these! I cant seem to get the same crispness out of mine. Are you using a tripod and rail? Magic? superior PP skills? Voodoo??

Haha...
Well done!

Lord Vetinari

Mark Edell wrote:

I just noticed that we use the exact same set up. So my shots should look just as good as yours, right? NO!!

I love the colors in these! I cant seem to get the same crispness out of mine. Are you using a tripod and rail? Magic? superior PP skills? Voodoo??

Haha...
Well done!

Thanks Mark for the comments.
I suspect the only difference is I tend to shoot with fairly open apertures compared to most macro- shooters to avoid diffraction softening and then often get the DOF back by focus stacking. I don't use a tripod at all - I often use a bean pole - just grip the pole in the left hand along with a bit of camera.

Brian V.

Mark Edell

Lord Vetinari wrote:

Thanks Mark for the comments.
I suspect the only difference is I tend to shoot with fairly open apertures compared to most macro- shooters to avoid diffraction softening and then often get the DOF back by focus stacking. I don't use a tripod at all - I often use a bean pole - just grip the pole in the left hand along with a bit of camera.

Brian V.

What focus stacking software do you use?

Lord Vetinari

Mark Edell wrote:

What focus stacking software do you use?

Mark - I'm a bit of Luddite- I tend to use the older combinez5 (freeware) or actually probably do more by hand in PS simply by using the healing brush from one pic to another.
There is a new stacking prog which has a free test version that is supposed to be very good- have not tried it yet.
http://zerenesystems.com/stacker/

Brian V.