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A Major Sugar Overload
A Major Sugar Overload
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Challenge: Rule of Thirds III (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-30D
Lens: Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
Date: Apr 19, 2007
Aperture: f/5.6
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/400s
Galleries: Animals, Floral
Date Uploaded: Apr 19, 2007

 Cropped, levels adjusted and USM.
Never saw these silver bees before this year.

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Place: 132 out of 380
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Canon EOS-30D
Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM
 05/04/2007 10:53:38 PM
Thank you to everyone that took the time to look and to write a comment. Very much appreciated.
I just needed to let everyone know that the bee was not dead. He/it was just climbing up the petal and then flew away. I just happen to catch it at an awkward moment. I have more pictures, I just liked the way the body curved in this. This is also the actual coloring of this bee, people that saw these bees were totally amazed at the silver coloring and they were so very "furry". No-one has seen these bees around before either. Cacti flowers are so very colorful that I probably should have lowered the intensity of it. I will keep that in mind.
Sony Alpha a77
Sony DT 18-250mm f/3.5-6.3
 05/04/2007 08:21:09 PM
CRITIQUE CLUB COMMENT

Very nice close up/macro shot here with excellent crisp focus! My first impressions on the photo unfortunately were that I didn't like the coloring for some reason. I think the bee (which is your subject) is overpowered by his surroundings and that hurts the photo a little. If the bee had been bright yellow and the flower a softer or pastel color I think this would have scored even higher. Again, as I'm looking at it longer I'm so impressed with the razor sharp focus on your subject. To me it's obvious the incect is dead and perhaps that's why he's lost some color too. With basic editing I don't know if you could have fixed the coloring by bumping up the yellow channel but I would like to see what happens when you do. As far as the rule of thirds I do think the incect is right in that zone but the eyeball REALLY draws your attention and that is well off the verticle third line. I don't know if that hurt your or not but some might have felt it wasn't exactly in the thirds location. All in all I think you have a spectacular capture here and I think it was deserving of a 6.0+ score. You got robbed a little. :)
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 05/01/2007 01:46:37 PM
Wonderful macro - amazing detail...
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Canon EOS-7D
Canon EF-S 60mm f/2.8 Macro USM
 04/27/2007 05:04:53 PM
Uh --He passed out..
nice picture.
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