The story of this shot is strange. I was walking on a mountain road, wondering about life and photography, when I saw a group of nice violet flowers standing just in front of me. In by backpack I had the camera with my 55-250mm mounted, so I dediced to try a macro shot with that non-macro lens. After a couple of shots, just when I was going to leave the flower, a bee (or bumblebee) "landed" on it and started to do something, probably impollinating. What a wonderful occasion! But it was so difficult to follow the movements of the bee, and I was forced to set the AI Servo on my camera.
The AI Servo is used when the subject is in movement, so the camera focus every time the subject change its position. To improve the precision of the focus, I used only one AF point, the central one. Because of my lens is not a macro lens, I was forced to stay at one meter from the flower, so I had to zoom on it, shooting at 250mm. It's incredible, here, the sharpness of the scene: consider that the shutter speed was only 1/80 and ISO 100. This is the miracle of the 4th-generation Canon IS.
Like always, I shot in RAW mode and then, in the digital darkroom process, I worked a little bit on the image. For completeness, I want to show you the original shot: now you can evaluate the real power of post-production that is that of improve photographs.
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