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<blockquote data-quote="Ironwood" data-source="post: 418248" data-attributes="member: 10447">Lawrence, I think your bee shot is blurred because of camera movement or because it was too windy, but you are on the right track. A bit of perseverance and you will be punching out good shots in no time.I was shooting bees a few days ago. On the first day, I was shooting them the same as I do my spiders, that is , lens focused almost right in, and flash and diffuser.I got a few good shots but they were difficult to get.Here is one from that day...[ATTACH=full]141159[/ATTACH]The next chance I got to try again was 2 days later, this time I didn't use the flash, I adjusted the focus a bit further away to give a bit more room ( maybe 300mm between lens and bee ), and I set my camera on CH.When I was getting close enough that the bee was just starting to come into focus I would hold the shutter down and keep moving the camera slowly towards the bee taking about 4-5 shots.I just selected the best shot out of each burst and deleted the rest. I had to crop these a bit more to suit what I wanted, but I found this way was a bit less stressful to get the shot than the way I was doing it the first day.[ATTACH=full]141160[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ironwood, post: 418248, member: 10447"] Lawrence, I think your bee shot is blurred because of camera movement or because it was too windy, but you are on the right track. A bit of perseverance and you will be punching out good shots in no time. I was shooting bees a few days ago. On the first day, I was shooting them the same as I do my spiders, that is , lens focused almost right in, and flash and diffuser. I got a few good shots but they were difficult to get. Here is one from that day... [ATTACH type="full" width="60%"]141159._xfImport[/ATTACH] The next chance I got to try again was 2 days later, this time I didn't use the flash, I adjusted the focus a bit further away to give a bit more room ( maybe 300mm between lens and bee ), and I set my camera on CH. When I was getting close enough that the bee was just starting to come into focus I would hold the shutter down and keep moving the camera slowly towards the bee taking about 4-5 shots. I just selected the best shot out of each burst and deleted the rest. I had to crop these a bit more to suit what I wanted, but I found this way was a bit less stressful to get the shot than the way I was doing it the first day. [ATTACH type="full" width="60%"]141160._xfImport[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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