More bees

Lord Vetinari

Some bee shots from the garden.All taken on a 40D/Tamron 90.
Brian v.

Honey bee ? messing about in a dandelion





Mason bee Osmia sp. having a rest



Miner bee feeding on pollen in a pear blossom

Capularis

Excellent as usual. I have the same Tamron lens. Do you have a preferred setting to get these results?

Lord Vetinari

Capularis wrote:

Excellent as usual. I have the same Tamron lens. Do you have a preferred setting to get these results?

Thanks

Just my normal camera in manual, ISO100/200, F10/F11, 1/200th and ETTL diffused flash. I did actually use a 2ND filter on some of these to reduce the bright sun effect.
Brian v.

dlplumer

GOLDENORFE

wonderfull exposures on the white flowers

so thats what a honey bee looks like are there too many hairs on its abdomen and not very pronounced bands ?
phil

Lord Vetinari

Thanks dan and Phil for the comments

Phil - not certain it is a honey bee in the first shots - about the only way I can tell is if it has hairy eyes and you can't really see that in those shots.

Brian v.