Buff tailed Bumblebee on Great Knapweed

[NorfolkMike]

My first post on the forum. Took a break from photography due to ill health but just now getting back into it. Taken some time ago in North Norfolk.

Mike


Great Knapweed by Mike Stew, on Flickr

[EOS_User]

Re: Buff tailed Bumblebee on Great Knapweed

Hello Mike; WELCOME to the forum. Hope you enjoy your time here; we're a pretty friendly bunch with a good dose of humour to boot... Look forward to seeing more from you in due time...

[tesarver]

Re: Buff tailed Bumblebee on Great Knapweed

Welcome to the forum Mike. Glad to hear you are on the mend.

Tom

[colin C]

Re: Buff tailed Bumblebee on Great Knapweed

Hello Mike and welcome to the EOS Forum.

Great to see your first post and photo, lovely to see so much depth of field in a macro shot.

[Stan]

Re: Buff tailed Bumblebee on Great Knapweed

a good composition and a plainish dark background which does not detract from your subject, however the whole image is rather too dark, losing detail in the bee. If mine I would increase the exposure overall by about a stop and then mask and paint back the background, something like this

stan

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[NorfolkMike]

Re: Buff tailed Bumblebee on Great Knapweed

Thanks for the comments.

Stan - appreciate your crit. On my monitor the knapweed looks washed out. I think somewhere in the middle between my original and your edit would be about right.

Mike

[Stan]

Re: Buff tailed Bumblebee on Great Knapweed

On my monitor the knapweed looks washed out. I think somewhere in the middle between my original and your edit would be about right.

looks fine on my calibrated monitor, but it was just a quick edit to illustrate my thoughts. The main thing was to bring up the bee detail so an alternative would have been to increase the exposure etc and mask everything other than the bee

[NorfolkMike]

Re: Buff tailed Bumblebee on Great Knapweed

Stan - took your advice and masked out everything other than the bee - here's the result.

Great Knapweed by Mike Stew, on Flickr

Mike

[Stan]

Re: Buff tailed Bumblebee on Great Knapweed