Bee Photo Feedback

[Beauty Through a Lens]

Can I please get some feedback on this photograph? (Sorry I lost the file!)

It was shot using a 70-200mm in Aperture mode.

[Geoff F]

For me, Adrian, it is one of those occasions where it is necessary to ask 'Is it a flower with optional bee attached or a bee portrait amongst a lot of flower?'

At the moment it seems to be neither one nor the other. Would the flower shot exist without the bee? If it is a shot of the bee, then it is looking lost amongst all that plant material.

So difficult to shoot specifically for one or the other though; particularly without specialist lenses.

It is OK as a general image, although a fraction over exposed in places.

[Donald]

Adrian

As you can see i copies the host location details (Facebook) and have put them into your post, so that we can see the image in the thread rather than as a link. All you are seeing is a link to it in Facebook NOT a copy of the image in this thread.

As for the picture, I think Geoff has nailed it. If it was a picture of a bee, then the bee has to be dominant. What was it you wanted the image to be when you captured it?

[Beauty Through a Lens]

I noticed, Thank you very much Donald. The bee is what I was photographing. Far as post processing goes, would you have any suggestions aside from cropping to make the bee stand out among the flowers?

[selig1656]

Agree difficult to determine the main subject.

[Ken MT]

What's the green object in front of the bee?, it looks like a camera reflection.

[Beauty Through a Lens]

What's the green object in front of the bee?, it looks like a camera reflection.

[Manfred M]

Oh a watermark.

I personally don't bother because they are so easy to remove and they really ruin your image.

Not a great job, but this took me all of a couple of minutes. If I spent the time, I could do a much better job.




The only way to ensure that your work is not ripped off is to not post on the internet.

You've already taken the best means of protecting your work by posting a low resolution image; it's simply not going to be of too much use to anyone who might want to steal it.





As for how to improve the image and make it about the bee, frame your shot in such a way that you eliminate material that does not add to the image.



A tighter crop will do this.

[Geoff F]

If you wanted to show a little more of the flower you could probably get away with going slightly bigger at the bottom (maybe 4 x 5 ratio) and have a fraction more space in front of the bee. There are several options but Manfred's suggested crop is going to be somewhere around the ideal size for me.

And I may clone out the pale part of a leaf in the top left corner.