Photography techniques?

[ParaSnake]

Uhm,I `m learning photography at school,and i need some advices,pls help me:
1.how can i shoot a bee flying over a flower?everytime i shott it,only the flower give me best quality,the bee looks nearly tranparent.
2.WHat is the best idea for 'Bulb' function on the auto-focus?
thx for helping

[TVPR]

1: You need _very_ fast shutter time - 1\1000 second is propably good. Then, you'll also need a fast lens - aperture 1.8, or 2.0 or something, in good light, and possibly also a high ISO speed, even though this makes for slightly grainy pictures. I'd be more detailed, but I don't know what equipment you'll be using.

2: I'm not entirely sure what you mean... Autofocus isn't all that, really, and bulb only means you open up the camera shutter and leave it open until you release the button. Typically used for taking exposures longer than 30 seconds, but also good for effect-photography, or events when you don't know when a brightly lit motif will come - such as, for instance, photographing lightning.

Hope that helped a little

[ParaSnake]

thx so much ,you help me all ,those are my excercises
1.we are going to have a trip to the forest...uhm,for example i want to shot a flowing spring,what is the best requirement for it?
2.in a natural forest(or mountain though),what can i shoot there?
-thx again for answering my 2 questions,i got new exp from now on

[TVPR]

1: There is no "best" or "worst" way of photographing flowing water. Check out my DA gallery; http://TVPR.deviantart.com - I got quite a few pictures of water. With most of them, the details on how I photographed them - shutter speed, aperture, focal length - it's all listed below. You just have to try, and find your own style.

2: Everything. Absolutely friggin' everything. That goes for everywhere in the world, there's _always_ something to photograph. Look around you, that's the key. Look for beautiful things, then photograph that beauty.

[FaePersephone]

Have you tried a nice macro lens, and the macro setting and upping your shutter speed?

Give that a go and see if it works out

[ratman]

If your still after the bee shot, try shooting on a sunny day, and use white card to reflect the light in, where you want it! Cheaper and easier than flash!?
Good luck.

[ratman]

P.S. Fast flowing water should look really cool at about 15th of a second, if you leave it too long all the detail blurs out and it looks dull try between 15th and 1 second and you should get some wicked results!

[MichelleJones]

http://www.radiantvista.com/ has an excellent vid tut on photographing flowing water. Try there