A bee in our garden

[Jørgen Ramskov]

Shot yesterday using D750 + 24-70mm f/2.8. Heavily cropped.


A bee in our garden #1 by Joergen Ramskov, on Flickr


A bee in our garden #2 by Joergen Ramskov, on Flickr


A bee in our garden #3 by Joergen Ramskov, on Flickr

[Bjørn Rørslett]

Obviously there is nothing wrong with this combination in terms of image quality I'm surprised the bee allowed you to approach this close with the big 24-70 poking at.

On a tangential and pretty hilarious note, Flickr warned me the linked image led to "Adult (sic) content". Probably their classification algorithms had a bug disclosed by a "naked" bee ?? 

[Jørgen Ramskov]

The bee was quite busy at work and didn't seem to care about me at all.

I haven't really used Flickr much until now even though I've had an account there for a long time. I can see that Flickr have a setting called "Safety level of this photo" with three options: Safe, Moderate, Restricted. These images were apparently "Moderate". I have switched them to "Safe" now.

Speaking of Flickr, I made a slight adjustment to the images after uploading them to Flickr so I processed some new jpeg's and overwrote the previous version. The Flickr uploader noticed that immediately and uploaded the images. I of course expected that it would replace the versions on Flickr since they state directly in the app that "we detect and ignore duplicates". Silly me to expect that to just work, I now have the same images twice on Flickr. Going to fix that now.

[Frank Fremerey]

Very pleasent rendering of the plants. Very hard light on the bees. Did you fire the flash?


Due to the position of the bee #1 is my favorite.

[Jørgen Ramskov]

No flash but it was a very nice, sunny day.

[Frank Fremerey]

In the years I do the lables for honeypots I experienced that
either the light at dawn or the light in the shades make the
pictures of bees more pleasent. Shade or softer light  can be artificially
produced in the field by large diffusors

[Jørgen Ramskov]

Thanks Frank. I have actually considered buying a diffusor several times but I have for some reason never done so. In this particular situation, with a living insect and only me there, I wouldn't have been able to use it anyway.

[Bruno Schroder]

I really like the mix of the bee and the details of the flowers.

[bendle]

Good shots of the bees, 24mp allows good room for editing.

[Frank Fremerey]

ebay item: 351090892908 --- 15 Euro --- You can tape it to a tripod

[Jørgen Ramskov]

Thanks Bruno and Frank.