bumblebee bee macro - a photo on Flickriver

            We had a dinner party the other night - this guy flew in and caused quite an uproar around the table.  Sadly it was not a happy ending for this bee so I memorialized him in this post-mortem portrait  :O

More than you probably want to know:
This portrait is a composite of about 10 pictures, each taken 1mm closer, with a camera mounted on a macro focusing rail. I used a 105mm macro lens and full stack of Kenko extension tubes. The decedent was held in position by a jewelers third hand clamp and needle. I used green tissue paper napkin as the background and a 3 IKEA goose-neck LED light setup (one on either side of the bee and one behind the background). The RAW images were corrected in Lightroom and then aligned and 'Focused Stacked' in Photoshop. It was finished off by cloning out the needle and blending in a textured grunge overlay complements of Jerry at Shadowhouse Creations.
   

Taken in: United States / Minnesota / Minneapolis / Macalester-Groveland (show map)

Taken on: June 17, 2014

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Camera: Nikon D800, f/3.2, 1/2000 sec, 105mm, ISO 500 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon D800
Lens:	105.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture:	f/3.2
Exposure Time:	0.001 sec (1/2000)
Focal Length:	105mm
ISO:	500
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Gain Control:	Low gain up
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	Adobe Photoshop CS6 (Windows)
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