Miner bee in pink

Lord Vetinari

Miner bee resting in a camelia flower.
Brian v.

Paul Iddon

Very nice - probably as good a specie of bee as there is to look at.

Paul.

DeVil

Nice set, esp like #2

Lord Vetinari

Thanks Paul and Predrag for the comments - they are cute little fellows
Brian v.

pthurgood

Very jealous of all the great insect macros you keep posting. It's Autumn down here in Melbourne, no bugs to be found

Lord Vetinari

pthurgood wrote: »

Very jealous of all the great insect macros you keep posting. It's Autumn down here in Melbourne, no bugs to be found

Thanks - you keep us going in bugs during our Winter !
Brian v.

GOLDENORFE

great series Brian. its interesting to see how deep the dark areas are on the bee, i would probably have lightened them a touch. are all these areas clipping the blacks?

Lord Vetinari

GOLDENORFE wrote: »

great series Brian. its interesting to see how deep the dark areas are on the bee, i would probably have lightened them a touch. are all these areas clipping the blacks?

Thanks Phil,
Suspect the blacks are clipping assuming that means are they against the LHS of the histogram. Have to admit I don't normally do anything about that whereas I am careful of the same thing on the RHS of the histogram. Having said that I do sometimes use the shadow/highlight function in PS to lighten dark areas if I think they are too dark.