My first decent Bee in Flight

IPClark

A little harsh on the Rhodedendrum but I was more pleased to capture the bee in flight.









...and "must.....stretch.....just a bit..... further"

Lord Vetinari

Good ones Ian - great pose from the fly
Brian v.

IPClark

Heheh Thanks Brian. The fly was a split second moment too. Rather fortunate to capture that

alben

Nice, do you ever crop your images or as I am begining to suspect with macro it is better not to.

Alan

IPClark

Hi Alben, thank you.

There's alway scope to crop a macro image. Often it's not possible to get as close you would like so cropping to get closer is fine. Alternatively, you might not want to get as close to give yourself more of the subject in focus, so sometimes shooting further away and a crop helps that.

The bees in flight images were subjected to a very minimal crop (probably around 20% on all sides) but shooting distance was stil very close.

The first image here was quite a significant crop - http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=221115

...and again here. The first one was a minimal crop just to remove some dead space and the 2nd and 3rd images very heavy crops of two other shots - http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=220971

Of course, often with bug photography, you have to just get the photograph as opposed to trying to get the best composition, then you can crop to a better composition. It certainly helps having an 18mp sensor too.