{"id":408,"date":"2013-06-27T19:22:01","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T23:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chiplynch.com\/wordpress\/?p=408"},"modified":"2013-06-27T22:13:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T02:13:00","slug":"shooting-flying-bees-is-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chiplynch.com\/wordpress\/?p=408","title":{"rendered":"Shooting Flying Bees is Hard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The flower patch was in full bloom today. I think we&#8217;ve finally seen everything that was in the yard when we bought it crop up (although July and August may still have some surprises). For the bees, however, this is prime pollen season, and they were very excited about it today. So I did what anyone who was in precisely my position and state of mind would do: I grabbed my camera.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I have no idea if I used the right lens. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0033PRWSW\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B0033PRWSW&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=chipmonkey75-20\">Canon EF 70-200mm f\/2.8L IS II USM Telephoto Zoom Lens for Canon SLR Cameras<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=chipmonkey75-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B0033PRWSW\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> is a magnificent lens, but it&#8217;s big and you can&#8217;t be too close when you focus. Of course, I didn&#8217;t WANT to be much closer, and it seemed to agitate the bees, so you never know.<\/p>\n<p>Catching a few that were sitting on the flowers was easy enough:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chiplynch.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Nice-profile-bee-on-flower-small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-412 alignnone\" alt=\"Nice profile bee on flower (small)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chiplynch.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Nice-profile-bee-on-flower-small-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chiplynch.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/This-Bee-has-some-Pollen-on-it-zoomed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-413 alignnone\" alt=\"This Bee has some Pollen on it (zoomed)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chiplynch.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/This-Bee-has-some-Pollen-on-it-zoomed-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chiplynch.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/This-Bee-has-some-Pollen-on-it-zoomed-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.chiplynch.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/This-Bee-has-some-Pollen-on-it-zoomed-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.chiplynch.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/This-Bee-has-some-Pollen-on-it-zoomed-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.chiplynch.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/This-Bee-has-some-Pollen-on-it-zoomed-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.chiplynch.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/This-Bee-has-some-Pollen-on-it-zoomed.jpg 1050w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><!--more--><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chiplynch.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/All-Nestled-up-small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-414 alignnone\" alt=\"All Nestled up (small)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chiplynch.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/All-Nestled-up-small-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chiplynch.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Bee-on-Flower-small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-415 alignnone\" alt=\"Bee on Flower (small)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chiplynch.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Bee-on-Flower-small-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got to get a better image plugin for wordpress that overlays things like camera settings. \u00c2\u00a0In the mean time, those turned out alright, but the bees weren&#8217;t really moving much. \u00c2\u00a0Here&#8217;s what happens when you start to want to shoot them in flight&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re out of focus:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chiplynch.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Dang-Focus-small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-416\" alt=\"Dang Focus (small)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chiplynch.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Dang-Focus-small-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chiplynch.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Out-of-Focus-in-the-background-small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-420 aligncenter\" style=\"line-height: 24px; text-align: center;\" alt=\"Out of Focus in the background (small)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chiplynch.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Out-of-Focus-in-the-background-small-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chiplynch.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Flying-Bee-Out-of-Focus-small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-417\" alt=\"Flying Bee Out of Focus (small)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chiplynch.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Flying-Bee-Out-of-Focus-small-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or they&#8217;re out of frame:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chiplynch.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/In-focus-Bee-Legs-small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-418\" alt=\"In focus Bee Legs (small)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chiplynch.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/In-focus-Bee-Legs-small-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or they&#8217;re obscured:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chiplynch.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Obscured-by-vine-small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-419\" alt=\"Obscured by vine (small)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chiplynch.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Obscured-by-vine-small-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nBut, eventually you get a nice focused Bee Butt:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chiplynch.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Flying-Good-focus-Bee-Butt-small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Flying - Good focus Bee Butt (small)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chiplynch.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Flying-Good-focus-Bee-Butt-small-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chiplynch.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Flying-Very-nice-hes-coming-straight-for-us-small.jpg\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or a nearly-in-focus maybe this is good enough picture:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chiplynch.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Flying-Bee-off-flower-Close-but-not-quite-small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Flying - Bee off flower - Close but not quite (small)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chiplynch.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Flying-Bee-off-flower-Close-but-not-quite-small-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Or a really good shot of a bee that&#8217;s clearly coming straight for you that&#8217;s ALMOST your favorite:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chiplynch.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Flying-Very-nice-hes-coming-straight-for-us-small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Flying - Very nice - he's coming straight for us (small)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chiplynch.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Flying-Very-nice-hes-coming-straight-for-us-small-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Until, finally, you get an in-focus shot of a nice bee covered in pollen, coming in for a landing.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chiplynch.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Flying-As-good-as-it-gets-Bee-Pollen-Flower-In-Focus-small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Flying - As good as it gets Bee Pollen Flower In Focus (small)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chiplynch.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Flying-As-good-as-it-gets-Bee-Pollen-Flower-In-Focus-small-1024x682.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">That&#8217;s my favorite.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The flower patch was in full bloom today. I think we&#8217;ve finally seen everything that was in the yard when we bought it crop up (although July and August may still have some surprises). 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