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Honey Bee 3

Honey Bee 3

Spent an hour in the yard trying to capture sharp images of bees in flight. Even with shutter speeds up to 1-8000th of a second the wings still showed motion bl...
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Spent an hour in the yard trying to capture sharp images of bees in flight. Even with shutter speeds up to 1-8000th of a second the wings still showed motion blur! Ended up with a only a handful of usable images. Minor processing included some sharpening and cropping for composition.
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camera

NIKON D7000

settings

settings

Aperture f/5 ISO 800 Shutter 1/5000

upload_date

upload_date

Jun, 2015

Views

188

Likes

+23

Awards

Top Choice

Superb Composition

Magnificent Capture

Superior Skill

All Star

Peer Award

Outstanding Creativity

Categories

Macro
Nature

Submitted to Photo Contests

Spring

Tags

#bees #high shutter speed #high speed #macro

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