Georgeous butterfly photo. I haven't yet been able to capture one that beautiful. In fact the yellow and black butterflies around here won't sit still for a minute.
QUOTE=pathfinder]You can't have flowers without butterflies.....
Pathfinder,
Please tell me what kind of lens you are using. I can't get close enough to birds or butterflies to get pictures. I'm thinking about a digital SLR, maybe a Rebel. I have a Canon AE-1 and a good zoom lens for it. It's a Tamron 35-135 TeleMacroZoom. I'm wondering if that lens will fit on a Rebel. I paid $350 for it so it would be nice to be able to use it. Don't know if it's powerful enough to get a butterfly before he flies away. What do you think?
Sunflowers, at a roadside stand
I don't think this is macro, but I love these flowers. I took them on an excursion to do the quality of light thing. I love sunflowers
Pathfinder,
Please tell me what kind of lens you are using. I can't get close enough to birds or butterflies to get pictures. I'm thinking about a digital SLR, maybe a Rebel. I have a Canon AE-1 and a good zoom lens for it. It's a Tamron 35-135 TeleMacroZoom. I'm wondering if that lens will fit on a Rebel. I paid $350 for it so it would be nice to be able to use it. Don't know if it's powerful enough to get a butterfly before he flies away. What do you think?
These were shot with a Tamron 180 macro on a Canon DSLR. The 180 Tamron will fit on a Digital Rebel just fine. A Tamron or Canon 100 macro would work too, but this particular butterfly was just a little "flighty" and I was glad to have the relief of the 180mm. It sounds like your Tamron 35-135 TeleMacroZoom might work fine on a Digital Rebel too. Good pictures of birds may require more than 180 mm - birds are much more challenging than butterflies. For good pictures of birds I think 400mm is the bare minumum
I am glad you liked the pictures. I have been shooting butterflies because I am frustrated with my reflection shooting.
These were shot with a Tamron 180 macro on a Canon DSLR. The 180 Tamron will fit on a Digital Rebel just fine. A Tamron or Canon 100 macro would work too, but this particular butterfly was just a little "flighty" and I was glad to have the relief of the 180mm. It sounds like your Tamron 35-135 TeleMacroZoom might work fine on a Digital Rebel too. Good pictures of birds may require more than 180 mm - birds are much more challenging than butterflies. For good pictures of birds I think 400mm is the bare minumum
I am glad you liked the pictures. I have been shooting butterflies because I am frustrated with my relfection shooting.
Do you have any reflections of flowers around your area, or do you know where you could get some?
Just a thought, those are beautiful butterfly photos. And the flowers, too.
I would say a 400 for birds, too, at a minimum. There was a small bird in the marsh during the rain. I took pictures of it, and it is still a small bird, smile.
I was shooting with my longest lens on the birds, and it is the 75-300 IS. There were egrets there too. I did get some pictures of them, but they are so barely acceptable that only someone like me would even call them acceptable. I have one good Osprey photo from the spring, and I have a hawk and a smaller bird that is pretty good, too. But considering the small bird experience...................if you are going to get a lens, you might as well get one you are going to be happy with. I don't shoot birds, particularly, unless they fall into my lap, so the 300 is long enough for me, but anyone who shoots birds on a regular basis would trade up very fast, IMO.
Small bird.....
My 75-300 at 300, I am sure, I think.....
And one of the egret shots. It is over sharpened, I am sure, but it was a toss whether to try for "sharp" or just go with a bit soft.....
That is cropped a bit, too..... I am sure you can get the idea. A 300 doesn't compete with the longer lenses with birds. On the other hand, I don't use a tripod, etc. A longer lens would drive me nuts. I went out to get reflections of the marsh grass. I did not expect birds, or a rainbow. Just lucky that night. You might be able to see that it is raining in the top picture.
ginger (I just figured out why the pictures bother me, too, the birds are too small to be the true center of interest, yet if I pull back and give the marsh as the center, the birds are too small, if they are not already, smile.)
A 300 doesn't compete with the longer lenses with birds. On the other hand, I don't use a tripod, etc. A longer lens would drive me nuts. I went out to get reflections of the marsh grass. I did not expect birds, or a rainbow. Just lucky that night. You might be able to see that it is raining in the top picture.
ginger (I just figured out why the pictures bother me, too, the birds are too small to be the true center of interest, yet if I pull back and give the marsh as the center, the birds are too small, if they are not already, smile.)
Ginger - Nothing will teach you respect for how good Arthur Morris and other bird photographers are like trying to capture really good close ups of birds. ( http://www.birdsasart.com/ ) It take great patience and skill as well as a fortune in good glass. A good bird blind helps too and the patience to spend all day in it. Butterflies are much easier to capture. I will think about flower reflections over the next few days and see if I can come up with something.
Ginger Butterflies are much easier to capture. I will think about flower reflections over the next few days and see if I can come up with something.
Sometimes moths are easier to find than butterflies, and I lost a quart of water out in the heat today getting flower reflections for Ginger, but here they are for what they are worth.
I saw one picture that was clear enough to tell that it was a close if not exact match. All the other pictures were either too far away, or to blurry, or too low res to tell.
A flower reflected - for Ginger
I had tried this after doing the tree for the challenge. The flowers are reflected in a mirror. The flowers are not reflected in the drops as much as the tree was. I don't know why.
I had tried this after doing the tree for the challenge. The flowers are reflected in a mirror. The flowers are not reflected in the drops as much as the tree was. I don't know why.
The flowers are beautiful Snappy. Maybe they don't reflect enough, as they aren't as thick as the tree.
Here's a special flower. One of the artichokes in my vegetable garden has opened up into a thistle. The bees like it.
I love to eat artichokes! Ever since I was a little kid in Michigan. My mother and I ate them together. She had special plates and all. I still love them, and so do my kids.
I thought they came from the supermarket, or the grocery store when I was much younger.
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You do live in heaven, and you seem to know what to do with it. Make more of heaven with reflections. Little multiple heavens, smile.
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QUOTE=pathfinder]You can't have flowers without butterflies.....
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Pathfinder,
Please tell me what kind of lens you are using. I can't get close enough to birds or butterflies to get pictures. I'm thinking about a digital SLR, maybe a Rebel. I have a Canon AE-1 and a good zoom lens for it. It's a Tamron 35-135 TeleMacroZoom. I'm wondering if that lens will fit on a Rebel. I paid $350 for it so it would be nice to be able to use it. Don't know if it's powerful enough to get a butterfly before he flies away. What do you think?
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Blue Hybiscus
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I don't think this is macro, but I love these flowers. I took them on an excursion to do the quality of light thing. I love sunflowers
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Truly beautiful, Pathfinder.
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I am glad you liked the pictures. I have been shooting butterflies because I am frustrated with my reflection shooting.
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Do you have any reflections of flowers around your area, or do you know where you could get some?
Just a thought, those are beautiful butterfly photos. And the flowers, too.
I would say a 400 for birds, too, at a minimum. There was a small bird in the marsh during the rain. I took pictures of it, and it is still a small bird, smile.
I was shooting with my longest lens on the birds, and it is the 75-300 IS. There were egrets there too. I did get some pictures of them, but they are so barely acceptable that only someone like me would even call them acceptable. I have one good Osprey photo from the spring, and I have a hawk and a smaller bird that is pretty good, too. But considering the small bird experience...................if you are going to get a lens, you might as well get one you are going to be happy with. I don't shoot birds, particularly, unless they fall into my lap, so the 300 is long enough for me, but anyone who shoots birds on a regular basis would trade up very fast, IMO.
ginger
My 75-300 at 300, I am sure, I think.....
And one of the egret shots. It is over sharpened, I am sure, but it was a toss whether to try for "sharp" or just go with a bit soft.....
That is cropped a bit, too..... I am sure you can get the idea. A 300 doesn't compete with the longer lenses with birds. On the other hand, I don't use a tripod, etc. A longer lens would drive me nuts. I went out to get reflections of the marsh grass. I did not expect birds, or a rainbow. Just lucky that night. You might be able to see that it is raining in the top picture.
ginger (I just figured out why the pictures bother me, too, the birds are too small to be the true center of interest, yet if I pull back and give the marsh as the center, the birds are too small, if they are not already, smile.)
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Figured, I'd add this one to the collection
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Me too, man, me too.
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and Ginger's reflection of a flower...
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This is a bee and an interesting flower I shot at Benjamin Rush Park.
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I saw one picture that was clear enough to tell that it was a close if not exact match. All the other pictures were either too far away, or to blurry, or too low res to tell.
MainFragger
I had tried this after doing the tree for the challenge. The flowers are reflected in a mirror. The flowers are not reflected in the drops as much as the tree was. I don't know why.
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Here's a special flower. One of the artichokes in my vegetable garden has opened up into a thistle. The bees like it.
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Here's another one. I like the bee coming in for a landing.
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It is pretty, though. Smile.
me,
g
I thought they came from the supermarket, or the grocery store when I was much younger.
g
You do live in heaven, and you seem to know what to do with it. Make more of heaven with reflections. Little multiple heavens, smile.
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