my d80 is just a month old. before that i never had a camera and didn't give photography a thought.

in this shot i guess i just got lucky. used an 18-135 @ 135mm lens. shot this in the late morning.

thanks so much.

winged worker.

Edited April 2, 200818 yr by spellboundXY

D80 ....That's a nice camera

I am in the same situation, I am a real amateur, and I just bought a Canon EOS 400 (Kiss) fitted with a 18-55 lense, which I completed with a 55 - 200. I am in discovery process !

You made a nice shot, but my feeling is that the bee is not really outstanding. Maybe a bit more centered would help....Just my "amateur"opinion. I guess that some more "specialist" will help better !!

Welcome to the forum spellboundxy.

That's a good effort for a beginner but might I suggest that the colours and exposure are a bit too contrasty.

I've attached my modification which may appeal to you. I've desaturated it to address the above problem, and softened it also by applying a severe noise filter.

I've also opened up the shadows/background detail to give it a little more depth

Keep the shots coming

Edited April 3, 200818 yr by The Vulcan

Welcome to the forum spellboundxy.

That's a good effort for a beginner but might I suggest that the colours and exposure are a bit too contrasty.

I've attached my modification which may appeal to you. I've desaturated it to address the above problem, and softened it also by applying a severe noise filter.

I've also opened up the shadows/background detail to give it a little more depth

Keep the shots coming

wow cool. thanks The Vulcan.

i'll study your modification process and try to apply it in my processing.

wow thanks so much.

D80 ....That's a nice camera

I am in the same situation, I am a real amateur, and I just bought a Canon EOS 400 (Kiss) fitted with a 18-55 lense, which I completed with a 55 - 200. I am in discovery process !

You made a nice shot, but my feeling is that the bee is not really outstanding. Maybe a bit more centered would help....Just my "amateur"opinion. I guess that some more "specialist" will help better !!

who, me. thanks for the observation.

i guess the the bee is like saying "can't you see am busy."

i handheld my camera when i took the shot and was bending over.

thanks.

hahaha, good one SPXY....Need to learn a bit of bzzzz bzzzz language then, in order to give direction to the model....

Anyway, please keep them coming. We usually learn a lot from these posted shots (own and other's)

Cheers