Getting in the car today i noticed a bee working the bottlebrush. I set the phone to close up and took 20 shots. I could not get the focus right and often blurred the flower. MiLord is the master.
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Sunday, 04 October 2020
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There are parrots on the bottlebrush this morning. If I were not so dignified, I'd be trying to catch them.
Posted by: PythonMagus | Tuesday, 06 October 2020 at 10:25 AM
once on a flower, flies and hoverflies seem to stay pretty still. Bees seem to keep moving the whole time.
Posted by: Thygocanberra | Sunday, 04 October 2020 at 07:02 PM
Bees are hard to get in flight. Good try imho.
I haven't tried for ages. They don't hover so you have this challenge of a small moving target lost in the background - challenges for focus acquisition (not acquired = out of focus), shutter speed (not fast enough on moving target and out of focus). Hoverflies hovering above flowers (sort of staticly in the air) allows a camera angle where it is the fly and the sky, so the camera is less likely to get fooled into focusing on the background.
Posted by: Thygocanberra | Sunday, 04 October 2020 at 06:59 PM