Just A Couple Of Bees

[Bill C]

My wife and I watched the grandchildren today. We worked in the flower garden pulling weeds, while they played. We found a couple of small 'deer ticks' on our grand daughter ... wow, are those ticks small. In the US, they can carry Lyme's Disease...so we really checked the other children While we pulled weeds, the bees kept buzzing by ... I tried to take a couple of close-ups (I wouldn't call them macros because I've given up on my lens that is classified as 'macro', so I'll just label these as 'close ups' ... yes, the 2nd one had colors zapped-up in PS. (2 different lenses - the 2nd pic was taken with the lens I have on the S2 90 percent of the time ... Tamron 28-75.
Bill

[jesd]

Really nice!!!! Great detail! :righton:

Jes

[Auminer]

You did a fine job with the "zapped-up" colors Bill :righton:

Dave

[Andre]

Those would bee very nice shots. Very clear & sharp.

[Bill C]

Jes, Andre, Dave - Thanks for the feedback, I appreciate it.
Although the detail looks OK here on the web, at 100 percent, the first one really isn't all that sharp. (hand-held macros just aren't my forte!)
Dave - normally, I have a bit of a problem with bright yellows and reds with the S2 - however, today was overcast and the colors came out ok ...decided to push them a bit in PS.
Regards,
Bill

[Glasseye]

Nice shots, great colour, I 've taken many thousands of macro insect shots with hundreds being published but could never get my S2 shots any where near as sharp as my F5 film shots. Now I've gone S3 & D2x no problem.
I thinkthe S2's slight delay aloud the subject to move the odd mm or 2 before the exposure.
I got better results with the on board flash or an sb26 at f11 f16 even in strong sun light but you may have to do some flash compensation tweeking to get it spot on. The high speed of the flash may help reduce camera movement a bit.
The first shot is a variety of Bumble Bee but the second shot is a Hover fly sometimes refered to as a pollen fly they are great subjects they don't bite or sting and are fairly steady

Andy

[Bill C]

Nice shots, great colour, I 've taken many thousands of macro insect shots with hundreds being published but could never get my S2 shots any where near as sharp as my F5 film shots. Now I've gone S3 & D2x no problem.
I thinkthe S2's slight delay aloud the subject to move the odd mm or 2 before the exposure.
I got better results with the on board flash or an sb26 at f11 f16 even in strong sun light but you may have to do some flash compensation tweeking to get it spot on. The high speed of the flash may help reduce camera movement a bit.
The first shot is a variety of Bumble Bee but the second shot is a Hover fly sometimes refered to as a pollen fly they are great subjects they don't bite or sting and are fairly steady

Andy
Andy - Thanks for the tip .... perhaps someday I'll take the time to really get setup properly to take macros ....
'Pollen Fly' ... never heard of it ... but they were a good subject as they really didn't move around much! Last year I was stung 6 times by wasps ... so, this year I try to stay away from them! (actually, I was stung trying to paint our house shutters ....not trying to take pics!)
Bill