There is a neat technique that can be done to deal with the problem of pictures like the bee-flower shot that demand dynamic range beyond the ability of a single frame to include. This sounds tough, but it's easier than it sounds.

1) Use a tripod, keep everything still(except the bee, who will surely not cooperate, but whose motion may not really matter).

2)Take two shots, one exposed for the central region with bee, and one exposed for the much brighter flower.
Copy them both.

3) Then shlep the copies into Photoshop, make two layers, and superimpose them.

Too long to explain the layering/opacity thing, but there are good tutorials on the adobe sight.

It's fun, once you get it.


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plus it's rained solid for 3 weeks, and my already pitiful internet connection was on the blink.

it's better again now, but that just means 3 or 4 pix on the whole thread come through, the others all remain little question marks...

maybe broadband will make it here one day.

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