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Butterflies Galore!

HauerHauer Registered Users Posts: 550 Major grins
edited April 14, 2007 in Holy Macro
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
My motto: To learn more today, than I knew yesterday!

Nikon gear & some lenses.

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    HauerHauer Registered Users Posts: 550 Major grins
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    SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited April 14, 2007
    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 :D
    I like the first shot, the last too are not quite in focus.
    Such beautiful markings on the wings of that first butterfly iloveyou.gif
    Thanks for sharing....... Skippy

    ....oppps you posted more inbetween me posting a reply.
    You got some very nice butterflies Herman.
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    HauerHauer Registered Users Posts: 550 Major grins
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    Lord VetinariLord Vetinari Registered Users Posts: 15,900 Major grins
    edited April 14, 2007
    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 ?
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    HauerHauer Registered Users Posts: 550 Major grins
    edited April 14, 2007
    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.ne_nau.gif
    Skippy, thanks for commenting as well.
    Guess practice... makes perfect!

    Cheers - Herman
    My motto: To learn more today, than I knew yesterday!

    Nikon gear & some lenses.
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    ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited April 14, 2007
    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
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    Awais YaqubAwais Yaqub Registered Users Posts: 10,572 Major grins
    edited April 14, 2007
    Nice series !
    you got lot of butterflies there !! iloveyou.gif
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