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[Palachandra]

I am not sure its wasp/bee, but is a harmless creature and allowed me to shoot closely. The context is stamen of a flower (we call that flower as Rathnagandhi).




As its flying i wanted to freeze its action so used larger aparture to get higher shutter speed. I used below settings:

Exposure: 0.001 sec (1/1000)
Aperture: f/3.5
Focal Length: 44.3 mm
ISO Speed: 200

I used 58mm close-up lense for my P&S and all shots are handheld.

Here is another composition of same subject: BEE

Any construcive suggetion would be appreciated.

[Saralonde]

Nice simplicity to this shot; good dof.

[ding]

I like the green and yellow together. The depth of field is really nice, too; that frozen wing is nifty. Beautiful photo!

[LandonW]

Wow! That's a great shot!

The frozen wing of the bee is cool!

[PSH]

You were very skilled and/or lucky to get the depth of field right. Very nice photo! There's some visible noise on both this and the other bee shot, maybe some post processing could reduce it?

[Palachandra]

Saralonde, ding, Landon@landonwright.com

Thanks for your feedback...

PSH,

Its my new VCL-M3358 58mm close-up lense which helped me to get good DOF. I am happy with the result for just 70$. The noise you could see is because of ISO 200 which I raised to get faster shutter speed (my camera produces noiseless photos only below 100). May be a different time of the day will help me to reduce ISO.

Thanks for looking into it and your inputs.

[southernbelle]

Great DOF!! I also lie the position that you caught its legs in. It looks like it is going in for a landing

[mother holda]

I love the framing and the colors. How do you plan for a shot like that?

[Palachandra]

mother holda,

Thanks for your comments... I didnt do much planning for this shot, however i had an idea after looking at many similar subject photo here in DPS. To be frank its my 12th shot of the same subject, i am satisfied with!!

[itanium-design]

without words! excellent shot!