Invoking my best Marlin Perkins: "The honey bee, nature's most efficient pollinator, gazes at the center of the water lilly while hovering over the stamen, evaluating the likelihood of a bountiful supply of pollen. Suddenly, and with no awareness, she inadvertently wanders into the photographer's field of vision, providing the human with a prime opportunity for a rare moment in which the in-flight creature is captured on a Sony 61MP Exmor R BSI CMOS sensor and enhanced BIONZ X image processor. The photographer cries with glee, while the bee continues on, wondering what in the world is wrong with the annoying human. She contemplates flying into his shirt to apply the stinger, but thinks better of it and continues on, foraging for more pollen for the colony."
This is stunning. Love your narrative too. There is an exceptional photo on canvas site called ācanvaspopā that does awesome work, this would make such a great piece!
@joysfocus@taffy Thank you, ladies. I have to confess to having to look up Georgia O'Keeffe, but once I did the resemblance was clear to me. Thanks for the education!
@ludwigsdiana Thanks Diana. What may be surprising to you is this is actually not a macro shot, but rather a closely cropped shot taken with a 24 - 70mm zoom. I credit the great camera and lens!
@pcoulson Thanks so much, Peter. Much credit goes to the mark iv and its amazing resolution. As a I mention above, this is not a macro, but a closely cropped shot taken using the 24-70mm Sony zoom lens. Maybe I'll post the wide shot to demonstrate how much got cropped out. FYI, they just dropped the price of the Riv by $300 here. That tells me that a new model might be on the way. :-)
@louannwarren Thanks for the heads up on canvaspop, Lou Ann. I might just do that. I've put a few shots on canvas and hung them, but it might be time to change things up some.
@gardencat Sorry, Joanne, I just noticed your comment/question. If it's not too late for you, I got the A7 RIV this past spring. I already had an RII, so already had some Sony lenses. I have an adapter and sometimes use my Nikon glass, but unfortunately the autofocus doesn't work on most of the lenses. Not a big deal, as I often manually focus, but the convenience (and quality) of the Sony lenses with autofocus cannot be discounted.
@stray_shooter Thanks Ron. I got my A7RII a few years ago and was using it almost entirely with my Canon glass and a Metabones adapter. Auto focus was possible, if not ideal, with several of the old lenses but was not good at all with my 100-400mm. Finally the week after asking this question I bit the bullet, sold that Canon, and bought the Sony 100-400 G series. Still not sure if it was totally worth it . Having a functioning autofocus is great but there is something about the colours that came out of the old lens that seemed nicer than the new one. But, I guess I can play with colours in pp, but if I miss the shot no amount of pp will fix that!
August 4th, 2020
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This is fabulous, Ron. It looks like it should be a large wall hanging.
Uncropped version: https://365project.org/stray_shooter/extras/2020-06-22