Again I had no idea what to do this week, and not much time, so I went to the cactus garden in the park, 2 minutes from my house, with my new macro lens. The lighting is bright sunshine, pretty much right over my shoulder. Not my favorite, but the bees seem to like it.
post processing:
* rotate
* crop (a lot-this is nearly 100%)
* levels
* NeatImage
* USM, 15,30,0
* resize
* sharpen
I must learn to get closer to the bugs without scaring them away.
Not sure why you want to get closer - this is pretty impressive! And it's a nice warm orange on my monitor (whuch has strong red/orange tones) - not overdone at all.
PAW - Excellent, sharp bee and cactus flower and beautiful bokeh in the background. Nicely composed. Yes, the flower does look pretty orange in my notebook monitor also. You live 2 minutes from Balboa Park? Good location, definitely with enough material for a year of Urban Nature PAWs. I go there a lot and was there Saturday evening with about 120 of my closest photographer friends in the San Diego Photography Meetup. We should get together some time and shoot. It would let me meet one of my 2009 goals to meet some DPCers.
Hi Ann, As to your monitor question, this does look very bright on mine but no, I wouldn't describe it as overprocessed or psychedelic. Then again, your new monitor probably is a lot better than my old Dell!
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