Today's butterfly

Dalantech

I needed a change of subjects

Minimal post processing and no cropping.



C&C always welcome :

Awais Yaqub

Great work loved it

Skippy

Dalantech wrote:

I needed a change of subjects

Minimal post processing and no cropping.
C&C always welcome :

Ohhhhhh nice change Dalantech...... he's a cute butterfly, my GPS arrives today so I will be able to go Zoo allllllll by myself soon whooohoooo!!

Look out forum when I get my new found freedom.

First place I am going to Dalantech is the Butterfly Enclosure at the Royal Melbourne Zoo....... thanks for the inspiration....... Skippy (Australia)

boogie

A floating leaf with a lovely butterfly.

Dalantech

Awais Yaqub wrote:

Great work loved it

Thanks Awais! :

Dalantech

Skippy wrote:

Ohhhhhh nice change Dalantech...... he's a cute butterfly, my GPS arrives today so I will be able to go Zoo allllllll by myself soon whooohoooo!!

Look out forum when I get my new found freedom.

First place I am going to Dalantech is the Butterfly Enclosure at the Royal Melbourne Zoo....... thanks for the inspiration....... Skippy (Australia)

GPS? Global Positioning System -or am I too much of a geek?!

I would LOVE to go to a butterfly enclosure! Every insect seems to require a certain amount of time to learn how to compose them, and I just haven't had enough experience with the little winged critters. I took a couple of really nice shots yesterday that I would have posted had I not blown the composition :cry

FWIW: Set your camera to shutter priority 1/250 of a second (or whatever your max sync speed is) and set the exposure bias on your camera to -2/3. Set your flash to -2 (you just want a little light for fill). Let the aperture fall where it will, but if it gets too large (small F number) then change ISO. On the 20D that I shoot with I can go as high as ISO 400 and still get good detail. Once you get your images on your PC just use Photoshop (or Elements) to bring the exposure up. Under exposing with a DSLR's sensor causes colors to saturate, and -2/3 of a stop seems to be the sweet spot for me both with macro and scenics...

Dalantech

boogie wrote:

A floating leaf with a lovely butterfly.

The original image is horizontal -the butterfly is looking down at the ground. When I shot it I composed knowing that I would turn the image 90 degrees when I got it on my PC. Because it was about 4:30 PM the sun cast a nice shadow against the leaf, so making the image vertical works...

Dalantech

Two more from yesterday's outing -not the best compositions on these. The critter was moving a lot (plus the wind was blowing him around) so he was a little tough to track.