Butterflies with a 100-400L

IPClark

A trip to the local zoo today and I was debating with myself whether to take my 100L macro lens for the Butterfly house as well as my long lens. I decided not to take the Macro lens and I'm rather pleased I didn't.

First time shooting butterflies with a long lens and I think they came out rather nicely.

All natural light, 1/50th - 1/320th at f/5.6 at 350 - 400mm. I think next time, a smaller aperture would still yield nice bokeh and give me greater DoF on the subject. All depends on how far I have to push the ISO. These were at 100 and 200. I think I'd probably go up to 320 maximum perhaps.






Composition isn't great on this one but I still like it

Stumblebum

First one is superb! If it was mine, I would use the Flip-Horizontal button in Lightroom. I like that it placed in right 3rd but I would love it if it was facing the other way. JMO.

EDIT: Just realized that won't work. Vertical crop then. Reason is that its back is to the negative space instead of its face. It probably only bothers me. ;o) Cheers!

Lord Vetinari

Lovely shots Ian - the longer lens worked well !
The DOF seems just right to me
Brian V.

IPClark

Thanks Brian and Stumble I was rather pleased with the results for sure.

Stumble, yeah the dead space is quite frustrating and it would have been nice to have got a second shot but it did fly off when some people walked past.

DeeBug

They look good to me Ian,good choice!

Davy