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Sunday, August 06, 2006

let it be

Bee among lavendar ~ Redmond, WA ~ 07.29.06

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: The DOF effects in this shot are phenomenal... enviable. Might you, please, share the settings? Focal length, aperature, exposure length, distance from subject? I'd love to experiment and see if I can do something like that...; 1:07 PM, September 22, 2006
katherine said...: Hi Lone,

Thanks. I shot this in aperature priority at f2.8 with a 200mm. The ISO was set at 100, and I stood roughly 1.4m away.

There were quite a few bees buzzing around. I shot about seventy-five frames, this was the one I liked the best.; 2:55 PM, September 25, 2006

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