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📷 Photographing and Filming Bees

An interactive 3D macro-photography rig showing how aperture, focal length and subject distance change the depth of field around a foraging bee, and how lighting setup shapes the shot.

Animals & Their World3DAdvanced60 FPS

A 3D macro-photography rig aimed at a bee on a flower, showing exactly how aperture, focal length, subject distance and lighting setup change what stays sharp in the frame.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

The near/far depth-of-field limits are computed from real lens optics (hyperfocal distance, circle of confusion) and rendered as translucent green (sharp) and red (blurred) slabs around the subject.

🎮 How to Use

Adjust aperture, focal length and subject distance to watch the in-focus zone stretch or shrink, and switch lighting setups to compare natural backlight, flash fill and flat overcast light.

💡 Did You Know?

At close macro distances the depth of field can shrink to just a few millimetres — often less than the width of a bee's thorax — which is why apiary photographers stop down or stack focus.

⚙ Under the hood

An interactive 3D macro-photography rig showing how aperture, focal length and subject distance change the depth of field around a foraging bee, and how lighting setup shapes the shot.

beesmacro photography3d modelingdepth of fieldlightingnatureThree.js

3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install