Bee on Lily

[wmaartens]

I have taken this picture of a bee collecting pollen from a lily in my back garden. No editing was done. I used a Sony DSC H2 digital and the settings used was
Macro Setting, F-stop 3.2, Exposure 1/320 ,ISO 80 Focal length 12mm.

I am an armature, and still learning the art of photography. Basically I am learning new things every day. To get to this shot was a 2 hour affair with the bee as it was hopping from flower to flower and then disappears to only come back after a few minutes to get more pollen. I took a lot of pics to get this one that sort of look OK.

I would love your feedback as this is my first pic on the site.

Wimpie

[kgb224]

Superb macro captured by you.

[lrivetz]

I like it. The focus on the bee and pollen is great. If this was mine, I would make it brighter. I would edit it using PS CS4: Image > Adjustments > Levels or Blend Mode > Screen. Other than this, great capture.

[wmaartens]

Thanks, I will try that as well. I did zoomed and cropped the picture and that worked wonders as well.

[woods]

Nice capture ! I would do 1 thing which is remove the chromatic aberation (I know how to do in LR but not using other softwre), my eye was directly caught by the blue halo around the flower.