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Camera: Nikon D7000
Lens: Nikon AF-S DX Nikkor Micro 85mm f/3.5G VR
Date: Mar 21, 2013
Aperture: 5.6
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/500
Date Uploaded: Mar 22, 2013

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 7/52 - Stalked this one for 15 minutes. Got a few clear shots. Great practice at holding still with the macro. Couldn't bring myself to setup the tripod. My trees are alive with these things and didn't want to risk the equipment if I jumped wrong.

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 03/30/2013 02:35:29 PM
Very nice. A slight change in the crop, but very nice.

You are lucky to have lots of them in your garden. Bees are seriously endangered all over the world. I know it sounds ridiculous, but it sadly is true :-(.
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 03/27/2013 11:54:41 AM
Nice detail - hard to get a sharp capture of these busy fellows.
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 03/26/2013 05:31:11 PM
Good advice from Ann on the diffusion panel. You nicely positioned the focal plane on the entire insect without making it all look staged. I agree on the crop, that could be a little tighter.
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 03/24/2013 10:23:34 PM
Well done on getting the whole bee in focus. The crop could be tightened up a bit as the others have said. Sounds like you might be hooked already.
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 03/23/2013 04:51:58 AM
Focus on the bee and the green leaf are good, DOF is really nice as well. Would change the crop a bit, to get the bee out of the centre even more.
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 03/22/2013 07:28:27 PM
Not bad at all...

How much cropping is this? If it's anything close to the full frame, you're doing great. Shooting from a little lower angle would get the bee in front of a darker background, which would help isolate him better. Another thing to consider, especially if you have a patient husband, is to get a diffusion panel of some sort (either a shoot through umbrella, the diffusion panel from a 5 in 1 kit, or something like that), and have hubby chase bees with you, holding the panel so that the light on the bee is more diffuse. With bug photos, it doesn't have to be a very big panel, obviously, so his arms won't even get very tired. Tell him it's an opportunity to bond. I'm sure he'd go for that.
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