This morning I took an introductory digital photography class with Melissa Southern, a Raleigh-based photographer. It was an absolutely fabulous course, and I learned a tremendous amount. I don't know that I am a better photographer now, but I am certainly a more educated one.
Some of the more interesting lessons dealt with macro photography, which essentially refers to close up images. I've always enjoyed macro photography... even before I knew what it was called. However, I didn't know how to utilize any of my camera's features to facilitate those kinds of shots.
This is a shot that I took as I was leaving the workshop. The shot was taken at the NC State University Arboretum. The shutter speed was 1/500 sec, the aperture was set to f4.5, and the ISO setting was 64. I set the white balance to sunny, and utilized the camera's macro focus feature for close images.
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It almost makes me think bees are cute. I kind of want to pet her.
Nate, I took a flower (thistle actually) picture yesterday too. Your bee picture is a work of art. Mine might make a good flower catalogue phote, if it were a desirable plant. - Dave
Natalie, it's really funny that you write that. I love bees, and I always have. And when I was a kid, I actually pet bees all the time.
Dave, I like that shot a lot. That's certainly been the theme that's been working for me lately. I don't know what your aperture adjustment capabilities are, but that's one of the things I really played around with yesterday at the Arboretum. As you probably already know, increasing the aperture (smaller f stop), shortens your depth of field. With flowers, I was able to get dramatically different shots by playing with the depth of field (and my range is only f2.8 - f8).
I think I still pet bees from time to time. I think I also used to get stung a lot, but I still pet them.
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