Went looking for something to point the camera at and found some female Mining Bees foraging for pollen in Dandelions. Fortunately it was windy last weekend and the breeze masked the vibration that I caused when I grabbed onto the stem of the flowers. In both cases the bee was turning away from the camera looking to get away from me, but since I had the flower's stem in my fingers I turned it to keep the critter looking into the camera. Also a little cool both days, and when the sun went behind the clouds the drop in temperature slowed them down. Maybe a little counter intuitive to look for something the shoot on a windy, partly cloudy, day but those are actually some good conditions to shoot in.
Tech Specs: Canon 90D (F11, 1/125, ISO 200) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (set to 2x) + a diffused MT-26EX-RT, E-TTL metering, -2/3 FEC. This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held. In post I used Topaz Denoise AI and Clarity in that order. Shutter and ISO set to expose the sky in the background.
Saturday:
Foraging Mining Bee V by
John Kimbler, on Flickr
Sunday:
Foraging Mining Bee VI by
John Kimbler, on Flickr
As always, when shooting semi-active critters, there were a lot of deleted frames.
