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Today was a sunny day in Lithuania after a week of cloudy weather and the bees were out looking for some nectar. I decided to take out my smallest lens with some polaroid filters on it to take some shot of the bees on the flowers. The title was "steeled" from Mark Smith's video. Credit for him, but photos are mine. Here are two photos. One is a stationary bee and another one is in flight. All critique is appreciated.
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On the first image, there are two pieces of dead grass (one goes across the entire frame, and one goes from the left side onto the wing.) You might be able to remove them with some patient cloning now, but the easier solution would have been to notice them at the time of shooting and remove them between bees landing on the crocus. There is also a piece of green grass on the far right that looks to be glistening to near white levels, and I would clone that out too, in the interest of eliminating distracting elements.

Second image is great! Love the light coming through the petals.
 
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The second photo is delightful as-is, I agree with the previous suggestions for the first photo though I'd try eliminating the bright grass on the right by cropping (but I'd clone it out if the cropped photo's proportions look off).
 
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brachypelma44 said:
On the first image, there are two pieces of dead grass (one goes across the entire frame, and one goes from the left side onto the wing.) You might be able to remove them with some patient cloning now, but the easier solution would have been to notice them at the time of shooting and remove them between bees landing on the crocus. There is also a piece of green grass on the far right that looks to be glistening to near white levels, and I would clone that out too, in the interest of eliminating distracting elements.

Second image is great! Love the light coming through the petals.
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He's absolutely right!
 
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Agree with the tidying up a bit on the first one. The easiest and best way is to do it before the shot.
#2 is lovely, I would play a little with haze removal to remove some of the blurriness above the crocuses.
 
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