New Reply

nicest things to do is finding a butterfly

 
Share Thread Thread Tools
Jun27-12, 09:51 AM   #86
 
Blog Entries: 2
Recognitions:
Gold Membership Gold Member

nicest things to do is finding a butterfly


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:

Jun27-12, 10:59 AM   #87
 
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
Jun27-12, 11:52 AM   #88
 
Blog Entries: 2
Recognitions:
Gold Membership Gold Member
Quote by M Quack View Post
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
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.
Jun27-12, 11:57 AM   #89
 
Mentor
Nice! I'm beginning to think butterflies are more vain than cats. They seem to love to pose!
Jun27-12, 12:05 PM   #90
Evo
 
Mentor
Blog Entries: 4
Absolutely beautiful Andre!
Jun27-12, 12:15 PM   #91
 
Recognitions:
Gold Membership Gold Member
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.
Jun27-12, 03:05 PM   #92
 
Blog Entries: 2
Recognitions:
Gold Membership Gold Member
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.

Jun27-12, 04:48 PM   #93
 
Admin
Quote by Andre View Post
make sure to select AI Servo for this type of work
Yep, important part of shooting macro. Not necessarily with 7D, it was already present since at least 400D (but most likely much earlier).
Jun27-12, 05:31 PM   #94
Gad
 
Blog Entries: 2
Beautiful Andre :)
Jun27-12, 07:50 PM   #95
 
Quote by Borek View Post
No tropical butterflies here, so we have to deal with whatever we can find in the field and around the house:

Latin names - in file names. Pictures marked with asterisk taken by Marzena. That's not all, but others are not necesarilly worth of showing.
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 :-)
Jun28-12, 01:44 AM   #96
 
Admin
Quote by NileQueen View Post
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.
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).
Jun28-12, 02:21 AM   #97
 
Blog Entries: 2
Recognitions:
Gold Membership Gold Member
Thanks NQ, Gad

Quote by Borek View Post
Yep, important part of shooting macro. Not necessarily with 7D, it was already present since at least 400D (but most likely much earlier).
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%.
New Reply
Thread Tools


Similar Threads for: nicest things to do is finding a butterfly
Thread Forum Replies
The Incredible Journey of the Butterflies - Nova General Discussion 5
arildno loves butterflies! General Discussion 3