[guerito]

Another one from the garden this morning...

[wayney]

If I see a bee that big, I wouldn't be hanging around to take a photo! :o Beautiful picture, bright sharp and clear. Opinion from a newbie tho

[Toad]

This is an angle you don't often see....and with such a large DOF. I'm impressed.

This is so unusual that I would swear it was done in PhotoShop - but I can't see any evidence of it.

Well captured!!

[guerito]

Thanks!

Toad, you're right of course, it's PS that gives that enormous DOF!

[Toad]

Now I'm not sure what is true...

Either way - if it is a straight capture - well done!!!

If it is a PhotoShop composite - well done again!!

[Kombisaurus]

Just set your aperture to f/PS and the camera takes care of everything else, right?

nice job G, especially on the wings

[guerito]

Now I'm not sure what is true...

It's this bee or fly that I doctored into the garden picture, which I thought was a bit bland.

I cut it out of the original picture, worked a bit with the eraser along the edges, mirrored it horizontally to match the direction of the light source and moved the wings to another layer with reduced opacity. I think the transparent wings make it look almost real.

[Toad]

It's a virtuso PhotoShop performance! Only the "extreme" DOF tipped me off.

Looking at it with a hyper-critical eye now - I can detect a focal length difference between the telephoto used to shoot the bee and the wider angle used for the trees - but I would NEVER have picked up on that if I hadn't been looking for it with the knowledge that it was PhotoShopped.

Beautiful composite - the translucence of the wings (seeing the treees through them) is pure gold.

...and as a long time photo-faker myself - you can take that as a compliment!!

[Petographer]

I saw the photo this-morning but didn't know how to respond. It didn't look right as I've never seen a dof that big before. I was going to say it looked photoshopped but didn't want to come off the wrong way if it had indeed been a genuine photo. You're a trickster G.

[shuttertalk]

Honey, I shrunk myself! It's a giant bee ! Oh wait... it could be a Hoverfly!