Butterflies Galore!

Hauer

Hi - Made an attempt yesterday to capture some butterflies with my Nikkor 18-200VR lens. Here is a selection... most were taken at 200mm. Camera settings: mainly aperture priority f/10 and ISO 400. Photos have been cropped.
Location: Tropical Butterfly Garden at Leidschendam, The Netherlands.

Would appreciate your comments.

Cheers - Herman

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Skippy

Herman Auer wrote:

Hi - Made an attempt yesterday to capture some butterflies with my Nikkor 18-200VR lens. Here is a selection... most were taken at 200mm. Camera settings: mainly aperture priority f/10 and ISO 400. Photos have been cropped.
Location: Tropical Butterfly Garden at Leidschendam, The Netherlands.

Would appreciate your comments.

Cheers - Herman

Hi there Herman, lucky find hu
I like the first shot, the last too are not quite in focus.
Such beautiful markings on the wings of that first butterfly
Thanks for sharing....... Skippy

....oppps you posted more inbetween me posting a reply.
You got some very nice butterflies Herman.
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Lord Vetinari

Lovely series but as Skippy pointed out you seem to have missed sharp focus on the butterfly in a few shots- were these MF or AF ?
Brian V.

Hauer

Lord Vetinari wrote:

Lovely series but as Skippy pointed out you seem to have missed sharp focus on the butterfly in a few shots- were these MF or AF ?
Brian V.

Hi Brian - All shots were taken in AF mode. I do agree with you that not all are as sharp as I would have liked them to be but I do think that applying jpeg compression also slightly degrades the final result.
Skippy, thanks for commenting as well.
Guess practice... makes perfect!

Cheers - Herman

ginger_55

funny, I have a macro lens specifically to shoot butterflies. What I have learned from your shots is that I prefer the photos where the green is part of the design, the butterfly is not actually so close. Those are the most pleasing shots to me.

Very nice in general.

ginger

Awais Yaqub

Nice series !
you got lot of butterflies there !!