Little butterflies

DalantechDalantech Registered Users Posts: 1,519 Major grins
edited July 22, 2006 in Holy Macro
I shot these early this morning. Minimal post processing and no cropping. RAW files edited with Canon's Digital Photo Professional and Photoshop Elements 4. They are about the diameter of a U.S. nickle (about a centimeter). Canon 20D + 100mm macro.

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  • Awais YaqubAwais Yaqub Registered Users Posts: 10,572 Major grins
    edited July 21, 2006
    yeah they are realy small you did fine jobthumb.gif
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  • DalantechDalantech Registered Users Posts: 1,519 Major grins
    edited July 21, 2006
    Awais Yaqub wrote:
    yeah they are realy small you did fine jobthumb.gif

    Thanks Awais! :):
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  • SystemSystem Registered Users Posts: 8,186 moderator
    edited July 21, 2006
    Great DOF on 1 and 3. Cool pics, that lens has pimp bokeh.
  • boogieboogie Registered Users Posts: 553 Major grins
    edited July 21, 2006
    I have a favor to ask. :):

    Could you please post the first shot cropped to the bottom of the flower bud with a little of the stem showing at a resolution of 600 at the long end.

    I'd like to see more detail for such a lovely picture. The size you posted is so small.

    Please? clap.gif
  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited July 21, 2006
    Dalantech wrote:
    I shot these early this morning. Minimal post processing and no cropping. RAW files edited with Canon's Digital Photo Professional and Photoshop Elements 4. They are about the diameter of a U.S. nickle (about a centimeter). Canon 20D + 100mm macro.

    You sure don't seem to have any trouble finding butterflies, dragonflies, or Damsel flies do you ..... I'm gonna have to wait till spring to even hope to find anything around my place.

    Thanks for sharing........ Skippy (Australia)
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  • DalantechDalantech Registered Users Posts: 1,519 Major grins
    edited July 22, 2006
    truth wrote:
    Great DOF on 1 and 3. Cool pics, that lens has pimp bokeh.

    Thanks!

    The 100mm macro is often described as a "hidden L"...
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  • DalantechDalantech Registered Users Posts: 1,519 Major grins
    edited July 22, 2006
    boogie wrote:
    I have a favor to ask. :):

    Could you please post the first shot cropped to the bottom of the flower bud with a little of the stem showing at a resolution of 600 at the long end.

    I'd like to see more detail for such a lovely picture. The size you posted is so small.

    Please? clap.gif

    Only for you Boogie mwink.gif

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    Cropped as a 6x4 and resized to 600 pixels on the long end (it was over 1000 pixels after the crop).

    What amazes me is that these butterflies, because they are so small, don't look all that special from a distance. But up close they're almost a rainbow of color! Even the antenna are striped...
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  • DalantechDalantech Registered Users Posts: 1,519 Major grins
    edited July 22, 2006
    Skippy wrote:
    You sure don't seem to have any trouble finding butterflies, dragonflies, or Damsel flies do you ..... I'm gonna have to wait till spring to even hope to find anything around my place.

    Thanks for sharing........ Skippy (Australia)

    Finding critters isn't the hard part -getting close enough to film them without resorting to using the cop tool is... :):
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  • boogieboogie Registered Users Posts: 553 Major grins
    edited July 22, 2006
    Dalantech wrote:
    Only for you Boogie mwink.gif
    Cropped as a 6x4 and resized to 600 pixels on the long end (it was over 1000 pixels after the crop).

    What amazes me is that these butterflies, because they are so small, don't look all that special from a distance. But up close they're almost a rainbow of color! Even the antenna are striped...

    You're a sweetheart! And you're still kicking after the "crop". Now this version I like very much. iloveyou.gif

    Once in awhile you can throw in a crop for us...OK!

    Why would you crop to a 6x4 first???

    Down & dirty...crop and resize.

    boogie
  • DalantechDalantech Registered Users Posts: 1,519 Major grins
    edited July 22, 2006
    boogie wrote:
    Why would you crop to a 6x4 first???
    boogie

    Just for the aspect ratio -that's all. I kept it at the same aspect ratio that I shot it at and then resized it to 600 pixels on the long end. Glad you liked it -I just wish I could have been close enough to see that composition in the view finder :):
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