Ma bee pitures.

Taken with my old D40.

wow !

Cool pics !

Honey Beez on apple/cherry blossoms ?

Regular lens or macro ?

:busybee:
:bzz:

edit: day-um, JU had a bee smilie, but juot bee forum doesn't ?
WTF ?

ozzy5 said:

Cool pics !

Honey Beez on apple/cherry blossoms ?

Regular lens or macro ?

:busybee:
edit: day-um, JU had a bee smilie, but juot bee forum doesn't ?
WTF ?

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Nikkor 55 - 200. Regular, decent lens. Nothing special. In post I refined these pics a good bit.

Nice ..... more details about refining ?

Back in the day, i got some good results on film with my old

Nikon SLR .... I've got a lot to learn about digital .... i'm

Fortyfawkin'-something, but i feel like trying to keep

up with the latest tech.

That's impressive .

ozzy5 said:

Nice ..... more details about refining ?

Back in the day, i got some good results on film with my old

Nikon SLR .... I've got a lot to learn about digital .... i'm

Fortyfawkin'-something, but i feel like trying to keep

up with the latest tech.

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You'll catch up! My dad's nearly 70 and he caught on to my D300 in a matter of days.

Digital post processing can be a headache at first. How much I post process depends on what I feel the picture needs. With the bees, I used photoshop CS3 to bring the brights down a bit, and I upped the yellow with a color adjustment layer. I then saved it as a large jpeg and used Apple's very basic iPhoto to "sharpen" the picture, add some saturation, and do a minor crop.

You can find post production tutorials on youtube also, which helped me greatly. I am still a huge photography newb, but it's always been fun no matter how crappy I was/am.

quick example

Unaltered picture:


Slight adjustments in iPhoto (sharpen and saturate)


Photoshop - highlighted his head, adjusted the color a little bit, then gave it the same treatment in iPhoto as the previous one.


Photoshop - de-saturated the background but left a slight feather (easier to do but less exact). Used the "watercolor" effect and lowered the detail and shadowing. Added a signature stamp.

Nice .... I can definitely see the sharpen+saturate commands working in the

pup pic progression .... light-colored fur and top of stone wall go from

'slightly washed out' to 'well saturated' .

I'll find some of those tutorials on youtube, and mah digi-skillz will Beee

mo' betta !

ozzy5 said:

Cool pics !

Honey Beez on apple/cherry blossoms ?

Regular lens or macro ?

:busybee:
:bzz:

edit: day-um, JU had a bee smilie, but juot bee forum doesn't ?
WTF ?

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Update:

Bee aware that BOP just added a new bee to the smilies ....