My Tame Bee

[oldcanon]

According to some of my photographic buddies I have tame bees in my garden, here's one from a few years back (haven't shot any yet this year) Its feeding on pieris forrestii and that long orangey brown thing is its tongue (which has a cute pair of little feelers on the end for collecting nectar into the tubular tongue)

[Muscat]

Re: My Tame Bee

Very nice you were pretty close for this one. Did you set things up on a tripod and use a remote shutter release when the bee came to the right flower?, it also looks to me as if you had a ringflash that fired am I correct in that assumption?

[oldcanon]

Re: My Tame Bee

thanks Muscat, no - hand-held (as all my bug macro's are, I can't use the tripod, find it too restrictive) and I think I was using my Sigma ring-flash on my old Tamron 90 macro, pretty fast shutter speed from memory (if you are interested I will look it up and confirm the figures)

[Trevoreast]

Re: My Tame Bee

Great shot Brian, I might work flipped 180 vertical ?

Trev

[oldcanon]

Re: My Tame Bee

thanks Trev, compositionally you are right but from a realism point of view it doesn't work as the bee is hanging on. When feeding from above the feet and legs are differently placed and the body position would look different too (Oh god, I've turned into a "Bee Nurd"! :tongue: )