Bee Self Cleaning (Photo and Gif)

in photography •  8 years ago  (edited)

Found this bee hanging next to the front door when I came home from work, so I put my things down and grabbed the camera and light. I'd like to do more gifs/videos at 1:1 macro, I think that's cool.


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What lens are you using? Great shot!

Thanks, a canon 100mm 2.8 macro with a raynox 2.5X filter

Sweet! I expected the 2x filter to reduce quality significantly more.

I haven't found it to reduce the quality much, but you do have to go much closer (at 1:1) so easier to mess up I think.

I'm working on a post comparing the three set ups — just lens, with filter, and lens+filter+extensiontube

If you're doing this, then make sure to order a reverse lens ring to compare the fourth option - some folks reverse their wide angle lenses to get ultra macro lenses. In fact I'm wondering whether I can find a good old prime wide lens for this very purpose. Of course, it's all manual, since the contacts of the lens are on the wrong side :)

you seem to be a really talented macro photographer. steem on - following you :)

Well, I am really now learning to do macro. Thanks for the follow!

Amazing thanks. Followed you now to see some more. Cheers

O.o nice close up of the bee @ jamtaylor !Followed!

Very good work!

they have eyes on the backs of their heads right? how creepy