• fraydabson
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    1 year ago

    Nice shot! I’m at a lavender farm today and tried to get a shot like this but couldn’t pull it off lol

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      1 year ago

      Often when I’m out with Bowie (the dog) I try to get a shot of insects, I’ve had a lot of time to tweak camera settings and experiment. But when it comes to catching focus I usually just leave it to the auto focus gods and hope for the best, I think l deleted 100 shots to get this one.

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        Yeah I probably have a success rate close to 1000 - 1 for shots like this. The methodology is ‘spray and pray’ imo. Fortunately all digital photos cost is disk space

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      1 year ago

      I’m a bit surprised. They love buzzing around our lavender. They also love the mint and California poppies that we have. I have seen a couple take naps in the California poppies.

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        1 year ago

        Oh yeah the lavender field was flooded with honey and bumble bees. So many lol but they were very active and didn’t sit long. Plus I was just using an iPhone lol

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      I’ve been posting a photo a day to Instagram for years. It’s an unhealthy habit, but it’s led me to be a little adventurous with color. Anyway glad it worked out this time.

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      1 year ago

      I’m just shooting with a 18-50mm zoom lens!

      I’ve been tempted to get a proper macro, but then I’d need to build a Flash diffuser out of a Pringles can 😂