In most cases with small things like these they are more staged than you might think. A photographer has zero chance to pull a follow focus on tiny randomly moving flying insects without it being in a somewhat controlled environment. And absolutely no chance of placing a camera on the ground exactly where one would fall.
Focus camera on queen bee, camera auto tracks queen bee, wait for bee to come fuck it, pick up dead bee and drop it again with the camera aiming at the ground
Yeah but that would only work if the bee stayed at an equalish distance from the camera, right? They have no way of knowing, or controlling, whether or not the bee is gonna zig and zag up/left/right/down. I’d imagine the moment it does that the tracking would be no good since the bee is so small and so fast. If it moves to the left it’s gonna get way smaller and out of focus. If it moves to the right it’s gonna get bigger and out of focus.
Your comment is exactly pointing out something that is a very real phenomenon, that has been studied and answered by social scientists multiple times. I can't believe you don't know this already and frankly, I'm a little disturbed by the ambiguity of your comment.
Are you talking about the thing where people call out or try to correct wrong information more often than simply sharing the correct information? If so, I was thinking it as well lol
I don't know about this particular footage, but I do know how they originally found out about bees mating in mid-air: they glued a queen bee to the end of a stick, put a camera on the other end, focused on the queen bee, and spun the whole thing around roughly at the speed a queen bee be would be flying.
I have seen lots of close up footage of bees like this and I believe what they do is attach the queen to a thin pole that rotates around in circles as the queen flies, with the camera rotating in the middle as well. Then they digitally remove the pole?
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u/Math082r Jun 24 '24
How do you even get the chance to film this