Busy Bee

[Fabs Forns]

Another one from the Fruit and Spice Park, Florida City. Not easy to do bees, but lots of fun!

Date: 5/24/09
Time: 9:19:01 AM
Model: NIKON D300
Lens (mm): 250 Sigma 180 macro and 1.4x
ISO: 500
Aperture: 5
Shutter: 1/1000
Exp. Comp.: +0.3

[Gus Cobos]

A lovely image and composition Miss Fabs...I like the soft background showing the natural habitat...your little guy is busy indeed...:cool:

[Christopher Miller]

Fabs, I know how difficult bees can be, but you did an excellent job with this one! Nice sharp details on the bee with the wing blur showing his motion. The colors and BG flowers are just awesome. Big congrats!

[denise ippolito]

Fabs, I really like the selective focus and the color combo! Very sweet!!

[Roman Kurywczak]

Hi Fabs,
I think in this case the BG is just as important as the main subject.......w/o the flowers in the BG.....I feel the bee (10 on the difficulty scale)......wouldn't be as impressive as it is here......and no clipped flowers either! Maybe a bit off center would be preferable......but I'll take it!....as the flowers form an additional compositional flow.

[Julie Kenward]

The bee and the flowers are perfect together. I myself would probably clone out the one stalk just to the left of the bee at the bottom of the frame...it's really competing with the focal point IMO. Everything else is "fab-u-lous!"

[Steve Maxson]

I really like the feel of this image, Fabs - the sharpness of the bee's face, the abstractness of the flowers, and the clean green of the background. The only thing I might change is removing the one stalk to the left of the bee (as Julie suggested above).