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Dalantech Online Image Upload: Off p.1 #1 · Blue Carpenter Bees Shot at about 1.5x with a Canon MPE-65mm macro lens. I changed my Fstop from 11 to 16 on some of these -needed the extra depth. These bees like to "cheat" by puncturing the side of a flower with their proboscis instead of sticking their heads down the center -a behavior that's tough to shoot for a multitude of reasons. I also managed some pre-flight maintenance images. Oct 05, 2008 at 02:03 PM

LordV Offline Image Upload: Off p.1 #2 · Blue Carpenter Bees Wonderful series John - esp like #3 Brian v. Oct 05, 2008 at 02:10 PM

JimKramer Offline Image Upload: Off p.1 #3 · Blue Carpenter Bees In image #2 whats behind her right antenna? 5 eggs? -Jim Oct 05, 2008 at 02:20 PM

Dalantech Online Image Upload: Off p.1 #4 · Blue Carpenter Bees Thanks Brian JimKramer wrote: In image #2 whats behind her right antenna? 5 eggs? -Jim Mites... Oct 05, 2008 at 02:30 PM

MichAg92 Offline Image Upload: On p.1 #5 · Blue Carpenter Bees Wow! #2 and #3 are such amazing and fascinating shots! Oct 05, 2008 at 02:37 PM

JimKramer Offline Image Upload: Off p.1 #6 · Blue Carpenter Bees Dalantech wrote: Thanks Brian JimKramer wrote: In image #2 whats behind her right antenna? 5 eggs? -Jim Mites... I must confess I'd never seen mites on a bee before... -Jim Oct 05, 2008 at 03:02 PM

n0b0 Offline Image Upload: Off p.1 #7 · Blue Carpenter Bees The details in your photos never cease to amaze me John. no.3 and 4 are my favourites, love the pitted exo details and the ocelli. Oct 05, 2008 at 03:08 PM

Dalantech Online Image Upload: Off p.1 #8 · Blue Carpenter Bees Thanks folks Shooting a critter that's jet black and reflective is a real PITA -almost impossible to avoid hot spots unless I'm using a huge diffused light source and there's just no way that's gonna happen with an active insect in the field... The key to pulling out all the fine details is to use a well diffused light source and to keep the flash duration low -better specular highlights and less glare. I've been shooting at ISO 200 lately to drop my flash durations down and it came in handy here when I had to go to F16. I shot at F14 to F16 because Blue Carpenters are large bees -as soon as they climb onto a flower odds are it's gonna point straight at the ground. Lots of vibration due to the critter's weight plus the bee will move its head back and forth once it gets the proboscis inside the flower -very common for me to get the composition and press the shutter release only to lose the shot because the bee picked that precise moment to move. Getting a little more depth meant that if the bee did move there was a good chance that I'd still have the eyes and the leading edge of the head in the area of acceptable focus. Of all the shots I posted the 3rd and 4th are the only images where the bee wasn't moving and it shows in the level of detail. In the rest there is a detail loss due to motion blur... Oct 05, 2008 at 05:48 PM

michael kilner Offline Image Upload: Off p.1 #9 · Blue Carpenter Bees great shots Oct 05, 2008 at 09:18 PM

lextalionis Offline Image Upload: Off p.1 #10 · Blue Carpenter Bees Very nicely done! -Roy Oct 05, 2008 at 09:47 PM

Tim Dollear Offline Image Upload: On p.1 #11 · Blue Carpenter Bees incredible shots, John. last one is amazing! Oct 06, 2008 at 11:54 AM

Kenj8246 Offline Buy and Sell: On p.1 #12 · Blue Carpenter Bees Excellent shooting John. Looks a bit like Darth Vader. Kenny Oct 06, 2008 at 01:46 PM

Dalantech Online Image Upload: Off p.1 #13 · Blue Carpenter Bees Thanks Michael, Roy, Tim, and Kenny Oct 06, 2008 at 07:16 PM

Adrian Jones Offline Image Upload: Off p.1 #14 · Blue Carpenter Bees Great series John, certainly not the easiest of subjects! Adrian Oct 06, 2008 at 11:19 PM

Pixel Perfect Offline Image Upload: On p.1 #15 · Blue Carpenter Bees Amazing as usual John, superb detail. Oct 07, 2008 at 01:45 PM

matuka Offline Image Upload: Off p.1 #16 · Blue Carpenter Bees Incredible shooting! What magnification is this? About 5x? (Edited) Ok, I see: at 1.5x Edited on Oct 07, 2008 at 09:18 PM · View previous versions Oct 07, 2008 at 07:08 PM

melsen Offline Image Upload: Off p.1 #17 · Blue Carpenter Bees Very nice John... Now, correct me if I'm wrong.. but havent you started doing more F14 shots than you use to? Oct 07, 2008 at 08:00 PM

Dalantech Online Image Upload: Off p.1 #18 · Blue Carpenter Bees Thanks Whayne, Matuka (big bees), and Allan This is the first time in a long time that I've gone above F11 -I use to shoot at F14 at all mags but traded a little depth for a little image sharpness. Between 1x to 2x the MPE-65 is pretty sharp at F16 though, so you might see me use it more often if I need more detph. Oct 08, 2008 at 04:28 AM

Kevin Theron Offline Image Upload: Off p.1 #19 · Blue Carpenter Bees fascinating John! puncturing the side like that, never heard of that before. Rgds Oct 08, 2008 at 09:00 AM

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