BEE BOMBER
Hanging on a Nigella bloom
Hanging on a Nigella bloom
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Aug, 2017Views
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Location
I captured this in my garden of tiny flowers and to my excitement this was the first opening of Nigella flowers for the season.Time
Taken in the early morning moments after sunrise.Lighting
Wonderful morning glow was starting to make it's way in through the surrounding trees into the remaining early blue hour.Equipment
Olympus E-5 w/ Olympus/Zuiko 50MM 2.8 macro lens. Hand-Held.Inspiration
I was so excited to see my little Nigella flowers blooming the first flower of the season.... I went to capture the tiny fresh blossom when this guy flies right into my closest focal area in the frame and hangs on for dear life, refusing to leave and photo-bombing my intent.Editing
The image was captured in raw file format. Opened in Adobe Camera Raw, used the mode: as shot, adjusted light curve from medium to less as linear, and saved as a psd file. Created a duplicate file, the image size was diminished to 72 dpi. watermark applied and saved for web. IIn my camera bag
I am an avid Olympus user. I carry my E-5 and a smaller E series body, along with the Zuiko 7-14MM, Zuiko 12-60MM, Zuiko 50MM Macro, Zuiko 40-150MM. A bunch of extra lens caps, batteries, Metz Megablitz ring light, Polarizer & ND filters for the wide angle lenses.Feedback
Bee Patient... Capturing tight macro images can be achieved in many focal options from spot focus, part or full frame focus. In many instances a bug/bee or insect will fly into your focal frame as this little guy had. I was set to capture the flower in 100 ISO and use spot focus. Had I of stopped to change settings, and move around being so close to the bee, it most likely would have flown away very quickly. So I re-adjusted my position, my leaning back and softly slide the lens to a farther focal length, I had observed the subject for a moment or two and decided to pan into the subject with a left to right slow sweep movement anticipating a quick movement.
