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Managed to start going down the wrong route this year with imaging bees and insects. Looked up what I was doing differently last year and miraculously everything sharpened up. Guess I should stick with what works and not get too clever thinking about things!

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3 more Bee shots :D

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That's it - can't get in any closer than this - won't focus, plus depth of field reduces to nowt.

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Vespa crabro, commonly known simply as the "hornet", is the largest European eusocial wasp. The specimen in the picture is a fully grown worker (female) – measuring 25 mm (about one inch) from head to abdomen. The diameter of the pan head to the left of the first image is seven mm.

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Well I'm pretty sure this one ain't a wasp anyway :D

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Definitely a pair of wasps this time :D

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My best shots from wasps:

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These are the ones from this morning, a very strict DOF, the max of my camera is F8.

The first one got a good toning, no crop on this one is downsize of a 3072X2304

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A fair crop of other shoot

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This last was very tough to focuse, so I choose the bee tongue. Very slight crop

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Had lots of "almost" shots with the bees, but they were on a thistle which was swaying a lot as it was very windy.

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The wasp wasn't the easiest shot either. I had an ice cream in my left hand at the time :)

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@Ernie: what a monster!
@Rasmus2: Nice background on your shots!
@ Greg: What did you change that didn't lead to better results?

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caught this fellow on a field, what do you think everyone?

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Thomas wrote:
@Ernie: what a monster!
@Rasmus2: Nice background on your shots!
@ Greg: What did you change that didn't lead to better results?


I started playing around with bigger f# which wasn't particularly clever. For the Canon 100mm macro it looks like a maximum of f#22 before you can clearly see diffraction effects (loss of detail) - f#20 seems pretty safe.

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