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Calm Metallic Green Bees?
Started July 18, 2010 @ 5:54pm by RickT
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RickT
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| Calm Metallic Green Bees? | July 18, 2010 @ 5:54pm | Maybe not calm, but not depressed? Who knows what the pharmacological effects are when bees eat the pollen of St. John's Wort? Continuing my quest to get a good macro shot of these metallic green bees, I went out looking for them again this morning. They were hiding (another way of saying I was looking in the wrong places). I couldn't find them on prairie clover (my preference because of the color it adds to pictures). Instead I found one working on St. John's Wort. I was using flash this morning because I didn't want to have a bunch of wind-blown pictures to discard. St. John's Wort is screaming yellow! I did not increase color saturation on these shots. In fact on one I selectively removed some yellow. Didn't help much. I'm still hoping to catch a good shot of these bees under natural light.
Canon EOS 40D, lens Canon 100mm macro, ISO 400, 1/250 w/flash, f/16, distance to subject ~5 inches, size of bee about 4mm, original shots cropped and sharpened in PS CS3.
larger at http://www.flickr.com/photos/rwteichler/4805703339/sizes/l/
larger at http://www.flickr.com/photos/rwteichler/4805703075/sizes/l/
RickT
Boulder, Colorado
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rwteichler/
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Wes
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| July 18, 2010 @ 6:42pm | You did well with the flash, Rick. Great detail in these shots and the color is brilliantly captured.
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Becky
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| July 19, 2010 @ 6:25pm | "Calm" and "bees" just didn't go together in my brain. :0
I do like your images, such fuzzy creatures they are.
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RickT
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| July 21, 2010 @ 9:44am | Thanks, Becky and Wes. These little bees just fascinate me. They're so tiny that they go mostly unnoticed. If we do see them, to the naked eye they look like small flies or gnats crawling around inside a flower. Even the flashy green isn't obvious unless the sun catches them. To me this is one of the joys of macro photography: making otherwise invisible beauty visible to our eyes.
And then there is the temptation to go to a higher magnification. The lens I'm using should be giving about a 1:1 image on the camera's sensor. With cropping and enlargement, you get the kind of result I'm posting here. But if I could get a 2:1 image, I might be able to look at those "eyes" at the end of the St.John's Wort stamens. What are those things about? I don't think 2:1 is practical for outdoor shooting, but it would be fun to try sometime.
Unfortunately, Becky, you know I'd probably start by getting detailed renderings of spiders!
RickT
Boulder, Colorado
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rwteichler/
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Becky
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| July 21, 2010 @ 12:09pm | Welllll, just put it in the title so I know not to look.
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