Month: August 2009

Hampshire Artists – Open Studio, Week 2

Hampshire Artists – Open Studio, Week 2

Hampshire Artists Open Studio has now entered it second week!

http://www.hampshireopenstudios.org.uk/

If you haven’t already, why not come and visit us, No 163

There are many studios run by artists that are open every day during these 2 weeks and the public can just turn up and view & buy these artists work.

How to find us http://www.natartphotography.com/section159044.html

Finally, a Butterfly Shot…

Finally, a Butterfly Shot…

…just 2 though. It was on the lavender for ages before I got the camera, then I only managed to get 2 shots . Thats all you need though when they are good.

Butterfly

I like the colour of the image and the sort of soft effect it has.

200 Photos and still no good Bee Shot!

200 Photos and still no good Bee Shot!

It was a nice afternoon on Tuesday, so I headed out to the garden after work and attempted to photograph some bees that were on the lavender plant.

I have been quite disappointed this year with the amount of butterflies in the garden. Despite having a buddlea tree all they do is fly around the garden, then over the fence!

So I thought I’d concentrate on the bees instead. After about 10 minutes I’d taken about 150 shots and had to go inside to review the images. As expected, trying to get a pin sharp image of the bees on bouncing lavender flowers is really very difficult! I only took about 10 out the first batch, so headed back out to try again. Another 50 shots and only about another 8 images. The statement ‘Busy as a Bee’ is no understatement, they just don’t keep still!

I changed tact and turned my attention to a different plant and tried again, this time with hoverflies. Result! 3 images, 3rd one spot on! Then another 6 images again all spot on.

This was the 3rd image.

Hoverfly

So, still no butterflies though nor a really pin sharp bee image, but I’ll keep on trying.