Bee

Caught it recently and quite liked it.

Hope you do too

Super sharp Bee..well done.

Someone will come along and say that the centre of the flower behind could be sharp.but not me.

Thanks Daisy

It would be nigh on impossible to get enough depth of field to have both the bee and the stamens of the rear flower in focus when getting this close to the subject.

Nice image and well captured. Did you use a macro lens? I tried to look at the exif data but there is none.

Steve

That bee very good Dave. Nice one.

Thanks Steve. No, it wasn't a macro lens, just my 18-42 which goes in fairly close, but not macro. There isn't any exif because I save for web in cs4 and choose to strip the exif out of it.

Thanks Dave

Not bad at all considering the lens used well done.

xx

What is exif?

Exif is information saved inside the image file when you take a picture.

Data like camera model, date & time taken etc.

Here is the efix from an image on my desktop


EXIF IFD0

Camera Make = Canon
Camera Model = Canon EOS 40D
X-Resolution = 72/1 ===> 72
Y-Resolution = 72/1 ===> 72
X/Y-Resolution Unit = inch (2)
Software / Firmware Version = Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3.4.1
Last Modified Date/Time = 2011:07:07 16:09:25
Artist = Steve Loveridge
Copyright Owner = Steve Loveridge

EXIF Sub IFD

Exposure Time (1 / Shutter Speed) = 1/500 second ===> 0.002 second
Lens F-Number / F-Stop = 71/10 ===> ƒ/7.1
Exposure Program = shutter priority (4)
ISO Speed Ratings = 200
EXIF Version = 0230
Original Date/Time = 2009:05:30 18:26:18
Digitization Date/Time = 2009:05:30 18:26:18
Shutter Speed Value (APEX) = 8965784/1000000
Shutter Speed (Exposure Time) = 1/500 second
Aperture Value (APEX) = 5655638/1000000
Aperture = ƒ/7.1
Exposure Bias (EV) = -1/3 ===> -0.33
Max Aperture Value (APEX) = 3/1 ===> 3
Max Aperture = ƒ/2.83
Distance to Subject = 498/100 m
Metering Mode = pattern / multi-segment (5)
Flash = Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode
Focal Length = 175/1 mm ===> 175 mm
Original Subsecond Time = 93
Digitized Subsecond Time = 93
Focal Plane X-Resolution = 3888000/876 ===> 4438.36
Focal Plane Y-Resolution = 2592000/583 ===> 4445.97
Focal Plane X/Y-Resolution Unit = inch (2)
Custom Rendered = normal process (0)
Exposure Mode = auto exposure (0)
White Balance = auto (0)
Scene Capture Type = standard (0)
Unknown tag, Tagnum 0xa431 = data ===> 1230714305
Unknown tag, Tagnum 0xa432 = data ===> 70/1,200/1,0/0,0/0
Unknown tag, Tagnum 0xa434 = data ===> EF70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM

EXIF IFD1

Compression = JPEG compression (6)
X-Resolution = 72/1 ===> 72
Y-Resolution = 72/1 ===> 72
X/Y-Resolution Unit = inch (2)
Embedded thumbnail image:

A lot can be learnt by leaving the exif data intact when posting and I know of a couple of forum where they insist the data is supplied so.

Steve