nicest things to do is finding a butterfly

turbo

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@_@ Oooooooooooooh pretty!

Thanks! Snapshot with a little DMC-ZS3 in macro mode. I'd love to have a Canon 100mm macro (fun!), but for now, I'm getting by with what I've got.

Andy Resnick

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Thanks! Snapshot with a little DMC-ZS3 in macro mode. I'd love to have a Canon 100mm macro (fun!), but for now, I'm getting by with what I've got.

I'm really impressed! Just shows I need to work on my technique... :)

Andre

This is about the closest you'd get, category: almost-a-butterfly or pond damselflies.

This is a minimum range shot 1:1 macro of a yet to determine species. It's total length estimated just short of 2 in. Image reduced to 16%

The lack of DOF and the movement of the reed (and camera

) precludes manual focussing, lock the focus and readjust the composition. So I used the focus setting "AI Servo", focussing continuously. As a consequence the head is centered in the picture and not a lot of body is visible.

A 100% crop, showing the narrow DOF.

Andy Resnick

I'm starting to get better: here's a 100% crop using a 24mm macro, stopped down to f/11 or so:

turbo

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I'm starting to get better: here's a 100% crop using a 24mm macro, stopped down to f/11 or so:

Very nice!

Borek

Why does it look like pictures taken at my lavender bush?

Andy Resnick

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Why does it look like pictures taken at my lavender bush?

Howdy, neighbor!:)

Andy Resnick

I want to be able to take pictures like this:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnhal...n/photostream/

Borek

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I want to be able to take pictures like this:

Don't feel alone

~christina~

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But the butterfly (~Christina~, did you identify it already?) was hovering as can be seen from the folded legs and yet it was quite crisp, so I decided to unreject it and do some RAW post processing, to get rid of the noise due to the underexposure.

I still stand by my original guess of the butterfly being a Queen Alexandra's Birdwing.
I found this picture of a closed winged butterfly which looks similar to what you have in your picture.
http://www.arkive.org/queen-alexandr...ra-alexandrae/

Edit: It seems that there are a variety of "Birdwing" butterfly species which generally all have the red body and yellow abdomen.

Andre

So I went to the butterfly greenhouse in the botanical garden of the University of Utrecht today, right, the one with the paleomagnetic laboratory, Fort Hoogdijk, the last weekend it is open.

I saw this:

*Gad*

Woah

Beautiful Andre. Do you have a larger size? I'd like to set it as my desktop screen :)

Evo

Very beautiful Andre.

micromass

Wow, very beautiful picture, Andre!! I love those cute little butterflies!!

Andre

Thanks, all and for drizzle the full format picture, uncropped here.

*Gad*

Wonderful! Cheers Andre :)

Andy Resnick

Excellent shot!

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