I'm still alive and kicking, just don't post much on forums anymore. Plus we moved to a new city and I'm just recently getting back into macro. Here's a few recent shots of pollen covered bees. Like always theses shots are single frames (no focus stacking), hand held, and I do not crop in post. If you click through the images to my Flickr gallery you can get all the tech details. Also when I list the magnification that's the mag that I had the MP-E 65mm set to. There are still a lot of people who think that the crop factor of their sensor changes the magnification of an image -it doesn't...
4x.
Blue Mason Bee by John Kimbler, on Flickr
Over 3x.
Foraging Mining Bee II by John Kimbler, on Flickr
Over 2x.
Female Mason Bee by John Kimbler, on Flickr
Almost 4x.
Foraging Mining Bee by John Kimbler, on Flickr
2x.
Pollen Covered Blue Mason Bee by John Kimbler, on Flickr
Lots of fun exposing dark colored subjects against bright yellow Dandelions but really no choice if I want to shoot early spring solitary bees. Dandelions are pretty much the preferred pollen and nectar source this time of year.
Pollen Covered Bees
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Beautifully captured!
Dave
Dave
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Lovely and immersive.
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Thanks!
Very efficient, better than honeybees.
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Thanks!