A tangent but this may be of use to some who don’t already know.
I wanted to edit a couple of objects from my Wells pics, so opened up photoshop (which is pretty much all I use it for these days).
The ‘new features’ window popped up and happened to highlight a new ‘Remove’ tool.
Thought I’d give that a try, not expecting very much in the way of results and had some time aside to do a proper job after trying and discarding it anyway.
Well, colour me impressed. What kind of sorcery and witchcraft is this?!
Pretty damn smart. And quick too.
Though I am conflicted of course, all this time spent figuring out and improving my preferred workflow gone, literally at the click of a button.
OM Digital Solutions OM1 with Olympus 60 mm F2.8 Macro lens at 1/4000 sec F2.8.
This is my ongoing experiment to see how I can get bees in flight, it was nice and sunny and I have a shrub they seem to like. The photo itself was imported into Lightroom Classic and then processed with Topaz Photo AI and then I tweaked the settings to push the detail and texture as I wanted to see what parts of the Bee would stand out and which parts were reflected in the sun. It’s probably a bit too over processed but I want to try out different methods to get some consistency in both photo technique and improve my skills treading the thin line between enhancing the photo and overdoing the development. My ideal is to get some detailed pictures of bee’s flying towards the camera and am practising to get a good picture of the Hummingbird Moth when it appears.
Thanks Tim, the photo appears to have good depth of field on the bee, which is always a challenge on macro I find, unless you stack… a bit tricky for a bee in flight… so surprised at f/2.8 but it appears to have worked… the eye and hairs on its body seem good… perhaps your secret was having it parallel to your lens…
Anyways great shot
The micro four thirds system gives an over exaggerated depth of field so on a full frame this probably would amount to F5.6. However, this macro lens gets me too close and the bee’s start to get a bit annoyed, so as an alternative I’m going to try out my full frame Pentax K1 II with a Sigma 180mm F3.5 and see what happens.
Brilliant… please share when you have done it. Looking forward to the main butterfly season this year… I will try with my 105mm macro ff lens for details this year…
Yes same here, I do like butterflies. I did go to the Stratford Upon Avon butterfly farm a few weeks ago and the little critters are extremely hard to photograph in flight but pose nicely on foliage.
I got the attached on a local walk in mid April, nice but a bit dark.
On the way back from North Devon we stopped off at friends who live in a thatched barn in Wiltshire. They have just had it re-thatched and the master thatcher finished it off with a fox.
Taken in December 2013, an early morning view of Lancing College in West Sussex,
Ooops, just realised that this is not my photo. So, credit goes to James Boardman and hope that is OK.
