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Going for Pollen
Going for Pollen
darnok


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Stopped Motion IV (Advanced Editing V)
Camera: Nikon D200
Lens: Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D
Location: South Africa, Pretoria
Date: Nov 17, 2007
Aperture: f/5.6 or f/8
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/160
Galleries: Macro
Date Uploaded: Nov 18, 2007

 Reversed 50mm macro.

Flash with shoot-through umbrella camera right, slaved to built-in flash (minimum power so as not to contribute to exposure). It was very overcast so essentially all illumination is from the flash.

RAW conversion. Cropped to 8x10 aspect ratio. Noise reduction. Resize, smart sharpen and save for web.

Statistics
Place: 49 out of 138
Avg (all users): 5.9448
Avg (commenters): 6.8750
Avg (participants): 5.9474
Avg (non-participants): 5.9434
Views since voting: 989
Views during voting: 286
Votes: 163
Comments: 9
Favorites: 0

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AuthorThread
 11/29/2007 06:02:39 AM
Hi from the Critique Club

Wow, insect macro, I always love these.
And it fits the challenge well.
There is not much to critique about this photo,
it is sharp, nice colors, good subject, meets the challenge.
The only thing that I would have liked is that the bee was totaly in the picture and not obscured by the foreground leafs, but I understand that this is a hard thing to capture.

As I said, there is not much more you could have done, and I realy like it.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
11/25/2007 09:11:48 PM
Bees! There all gone up here in the north. Great stop action.
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 11/21/2007 11:43:44 PM
I like the perspective that the foreground bokeh adds to this image. Would like to see the "tail" of the bee in the shot, but the good greatly outweighs the bad in this. Well done.
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 11/20/2007 09:36:04 AM
Great capture.
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 11/19/2007 09:25:39 PM
The bee and pollen against the black background looks nice
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 11/19/2007 05:59:06 PM
I love the dof here. That's what makes it special. 8 for me
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 11/19/2007 02:05:02 PM
Great macro and a shame that the rest of the body is hidden.
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 11/19/2007 11:17:40 AM
Great shot/
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 11/19/2007 01:48:51 AM
the foreground bokeh too distracting....
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