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In the garden the other day practising with kit lens and sb800.
I quite liked the way this came out. better than some of the bee macros I've done so far.
The 18-70 kit lens really is a good piece of glass for what it costs.





Cheers
John

Like the angle and framing : cool shot!!

Lovely shot John - if I can get one (or a few shots) like this on our trip to the Hunter coming up I'll walk away a very happy chappy! Well done, nice perspective and the bee really adds to it!

I like this! This is something that little bit different, a shot of a bee with nice foreground interest and nicely composed and framed... Might be tempted to crop a smidge off the far left but this is great, it's that little bit different but with plenty of compositional subject matter and foreground to entice the viewer...

Thanks for the comments BT*ist, Geoff and Andrew.

I tried taking a little off the lhs Andrew but the shot seems to loose something with a little less sky.

This is going to be one of my keepers.

Very nice. Love the crisp blue sky, it really enhances the shot.

This is a top shot shot John - for a variety of reasons: colour, DOF, angle, subject matter.

For me, the one distraction is the flower popping up from the edge on the bottom left. I would crop the base of the shot (and a little off the left to balance) so that the left-most object was the clean crisp stalk rather than the OOF flower. Just my thoughts based on the fact that as soon as my eye spotted the flower, it kept coming back to it.

The shot's terrific though and I doubt I could ever match it.

Simon and Andrew, I followed your suggestions and I think it improved the image.

Thanks for the ideas.

John

Much better John! Amazing how little things can make such a big difference. In my eyes, this small change results in the whole image looking crisper and sharper.

F**k me that's a cracking shot! Well done

Thanks for the comments guys. I do like this shot, and more so after I edited it with Andrew and Simon's suggestions.
Cheers
John