Simple tips to improve your bee photography Take it back to the hive! Try editing your shots and shoot RAW if you have the storage. The species in the feature photo is Tetragonula clypearis and I love this photo because they’re tiny. They are in fact one of Australia’s smallest stingless bees. They are 3.5mm… Continue reading Five Tips for Un-bee-lievable Photos- Tip Five
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Five Tips for Un-bee-lievable Photos – Tip Four
Simple tips to improve your bee photography Tip Four – Bee-yond Auto It’s great having a phone in your pocket everywhere you go and most of the time pointing your phone and shooting is enough to get a good shot UNLESS it’s a tiny, fast moving subject. If that’s the case a DSLR makes things… Continue reading Five Tips for Un-bee-lievable Photos – Tip Four
Five Tips for Un-bee-lievable Photos – Tip Three
Simple Tips to improve your Bee Photography Tip Three- Set up a Sting-less Operation I often get asked how I manage to capture bees in flight. Well, it links back to frequency – I’m out there a lot! Obviously light comes into it but there’s another tactic I employ and that has to do with… Continue reading Five Tips for Un-bee-lievable Photos – Tip Three
Five Tips for Un-bee-lievable Photos Tip Two
Simple Tips to improve your Bee Photography Tip Two – Bee-Lightful Photography is all about light and capturing that light. For tiny subjects like bees, lighting is even more important. You need the light to highlight the details, but too much light creates shadows that obscure parts of the bee. You need to One of… Continue reading Five Tips for Un-bee-lievable Photos Tip Two
Five Tips for Un-bee-lievable Photos – Tip One
Simple tips to improve your bee photography Recently I was asked to give a presentation about bee photography for the Australian Native Bee Association branches in Brisbane and on the Cassowary Coast. Here’s the blog version – follow to make sure you get all five tips! Rather watch or listen than read? Watch on YouTube… Continue reading Five Tips for Un-bee-lievable Photos – Tip One
A Blur of Activity as Summer Holidays Draw to a Close
Photostory Photo a Day Challenge A Blur of Activity as Summer Holidays Draw to a Close Photo a Day Challenge: Week 59 — January 13th to January 19th As our Northern Hemisphere moves through Winter, we are in the height of Summer. Our five-week break over Christmas and New Year ended this week and the last two days were… Continue reading A Blur of Activity as Summer Holidays Draw to a Close
Photos for Lovers of Australian Poetry
Photo a day challenge — Week 20: April 1st to April 7th, 2022 I am cheating with my feature shot this week and one later in the piece. I am selling off my old camera and so I went and downloaded remaining photos from the memory card before formatting it. I decided to use those photos to cheat… Continue reading Photos for Lovers of Australian Poetry
Lighthunting and its Rewards for a Lover of Nature
The quest to capture nature photos can be frustrating, but the reward is well worth the hours waiting for the shot. Nature photography is both frustrating and exhilerating. The list of must-have shots seems to grow faster than they are achieved. Today I got one of those shots. The Cairns Birdwing Butterfly (Ornithoptera euphorion) is Australia’s… Continue reading Lighthunting and its Rewards for a Lover of Nature
