70mm f 14 1/40 sec ISO 100
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At this point, my skills with shutter speed are still pretty basic but after Hayley’s session I’m feeling more confident to have a go. I am yet to purchase any photo editing software so this image is pretty raw.
Shutter priority – ISO 5000 1/4000s f5.
I wish the sun hadn’t set so quickly as I was attempting to catch the sun behind the water balloon for effect. This was the best I got on the day.
Taken on canon 60D on the Action Program setting which gave settings as:
f/5 1/640 sec ISO 125
Canon Rp with Canon RF 100-500mm lens
f/6.3, 1/4000sec, ISO-2000, focal length 324mm
First time seen in my garden (their luminous blue bands & their bright green bulbous eyes are amazing). Much smaller & so much faster than the normal bee & they rarely settle on anything for more than a fraction of a second, so it certainly qualifies for the topic of ‘motion’.
I set my camera to its maximum shutter speed 1/4000sec & even that wasn’t enough to ‘stop’ the wings.
This is cropped probably 150% in Photoshop hence image quality is reduced, but I was happy to get a shot with reasonable focus of this very busy native critter in flight mode.
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