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Yellow-masked Bee, Hylaeus
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What did you take this with, a microscope? Oh sorry, I already used that one.
This is outstanding. Pity the petals are coming in and covering his shoulder. A bit more detail would be nice around the mouth but it’s excellent nonetheless.
Care to talk about your technique at all? I take it the MPE-65 (if I’ve got the name right) doesn’t record the magnification you use? This looks about 3.5x or 4x magnification I’d guess. Do you use a tripod? I’m guessing you’ve got Canon’s ring flash thingy?
Nice work.
Cracking shots you have posted lately David (playing catchup on posts at the mo after a 2 week break). Agree with BBB, pity about the encroaching petal but I guess he wasn’t going to hang around while you got the scissors out :wink: …….Mikka
Dave another stunner. Love the detail on the face and the hairs on the feelers (not good at names) the DOF is brilliant and to be honest I think the leaf adds to it.
SodaThanks for the comments guys. I’m quite pleased with this. It seem to have the 3 key ingredients. Colour, light and expression.
This one is around 4x magnification. The flash is the MT-24 EX twinlite flash. This guy was hiding in a flower as they so ofthen do. I set the camera to TV mode and underexposed by -2. Set FEC by -1/3 and dialled in till the aperature till it was about f11. Shutter speed isn’t a real concent because i am underexposing the ambient and use the flash as shutter speed. Though the faster the shutter the better. Usually down to about 40sec is where it’s at. I never use a tripod. It’s too awkward. I try to steady my hand on anything I can get. If there is nothing there then I use a bamboo pole clasped tightly between my left hand and the camera.
Hope this helps.
David OS
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