nicest things to do is finding a butterfly

Andre

Another butterfly greenhouse today. The wettest hottest so far. I had to change shirts, great that it's cool outside today.

The star of the show



More in close up







now, these little yellow dots? Pollen? parasite? parasite eggs?:



Not the star of the show, but the shot is esthetically the most pleasing IMO:

M Quack

Great pictures, I love the DoF you get on the macros. I would maybe play with cropping a bit. E.g. trying a square image format

Andre

Yes you're right, these are mere thumbnails of the whole frames for quick result. There is a lot of finetuning with post processing and cropping ahead.

lisab

Nice! I'm beginning to think butterflies are more vain than cats. They seem to love to pose!

Evo

Absolutely beautiful Andre!

turbo

I should start budgeting for a decent macro. My wife is turning our front lawn into a jungle of flowering plants, so we get lots of butterflies.

Andre

Thanks Evo and Lisa, yes trying to estimate their vanity will be in vain.

I hope it will work out Turbo, the 100mm is really at bargains prices nowadays, at least here in the Netherlands.

For Borek, Marzena and other Canon 7D users with a Canon brand macro lens, make sure to select AI Servo for this type of work, for an amazing keeper rate. All my shots were in focus. I wished I had known that earlier.

Borek

Yep, important part of shooting macro. Not necessarily with 7D, it was already present since at least 400D (but most likely much earlier).

Gad

Beautiful Andre :)

NileQueen

Andre, those are beautiful pictures. Thanks for posting.

Borek, what a variety of different butterflies you've captured! Thanks. The one with the silver arc under his underwing is a Comma, if I am not mistaken.

NQ :-)

Borek

Thanks.

As explained in the post - file names are Latin names of the butterflies. You are right:



is a comma, AKA Polygonia c-album (known here as rusałka ceik - as far as I know c in ceik is related to the c shape on the wing, otherwise no word like ceik in Polish).

Andre

Thanks NQ, Gad

I believe that it is explained that the doubling of the sampling rate in AI servo is only so for a 7D with a Canon macro lens (hence no sigma or so) and a magnification greater than 33%.