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Postby johnd on Fri Jan 27, 2006 3:45 pm

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.

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Postby BT*ist on Fri Jan 27, 2006 4:31 pm

Like the angle and framing : cool shot!!
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Postby Geoff on Fri Jan 27, 2006 4:59 pm

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!
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Postby mudder on Fri Jan 27, 2006 7:35 pm

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...
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Postby johnd on Sat Jan 28, 2006 8:26 am

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.
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Postby Slider on Sat Jan 28, 2006 9:14 am

Very nice. Love the crisp blue sky, it really enhances the shot. :D
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Postby Manta on Sat Jan 28, 2006 9:49 am

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. :)
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Postby johnd on Sun Jan 29, 2006 12:50 pm

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

Thanks for the ideas.

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Postby Manta on Sun Jan 29, 2006 9:44 pm

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.
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Postby rokkstar on Sun Jan 29, 2006 11:19 pm

F**k me that's a cracking shot! Well done
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Postby johnd on Mon Jan 30, 2006 10:47 am

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