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Miner Bee at 4x
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Published: 2008-03-31 11:55:26 +0000 UTC; Views: 16714; Favourites: 780; Downloads: 0
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Shot at 4 times life size.Related content
Comments: 348
wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwooooooooowwwwww
u really capture the nature
which camera is this
did u give me the detail plz and how u shot this image is the bee is alive when u take this shot !!
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I use a Canon 40D, an MPE-65mm macro lens, and a diffused MT-24EX macro flash.
All of my subjects are alive and kicking -I never shoot dead insects. Tutorial here: [link]
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I have tutorials on how I take my images in the shoutbox on my journal, but basically I take advantage of temperature changes in the early spring. Sudden drops in temperature, even the sun going behind the clouds, can slow them down and allow me to get close.
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really cool and a great macro- hope to see more from our galley
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Great phot. Did you just use your 65mm macro or did you add and extension tubes aswell?
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Just the MPE-65mm. The MPE is really a reversed lens with a variable length extension tube, and using additional extension tubes with it doesn't seem to work very well. When I want more magnification than 5x I add a 1.4x teleconverter to it.
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amazing shot dude 
PS : how to did ya get closer enough to get such a detailled shot without having the bee fly away ?
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Tutorial here: [link]
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thanks a lot dude
i'll try to translate / understand it
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you must be kidding me! amazing shot, I just loooove it!
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awesome...................super.........super.........very nice this is 
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That's very kind of you -thanks!
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omg! how did you do it? i imagine with a lot of patience
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I catch them when the temperatures are low -when the clouds go behind the clouds they slow down...
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Thanks for all the kind comments everyone -most appreciated!
I've been shooting macro exclusively with the Canon MPE-65mm macro lens for the past 18 months.
In the early spring the weather creates a "stop and go" environment for a lot of insects: One minute the sun is out and they have enough energy to move, and the next it's behind the clouds and their metabolism takes a nose dive. Later on in the summer months a shot like this one will be almost impossible.
At 4 times life size, shooting with the Canon 40D, the image frame is only about 5 millimeters wide -for the metric impaired that's the thickness of 5 US dimes
For tips on shooting macro please see my blog: [link]
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This is so amazing! What I love the most (besides all the details) is that you can see some small imperfections on the lens of the bees' eye...fascinating....thank you for sharing this!
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Most insects clean there eyes a lot and it's not uncommon for them to get scratches from it.
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