Post your Butterflies!! Tips on how to capture them.

Gatekeeper

S.R.M. wrote in post #19019084
Great images Dennis! Blue Triangles are not easy to capture because they rarely are still.

Thanks Stephen, I appreciate your comments and thanks for the ID, much appreciated.

I must have been lucky as this specimen stayed in the one spot and allowed me to get the side on and open wing shots, although the dappled shade was a little bit of a problem as there was a bright beam of sunshine filtering through the foliage onto the body, blowing it out a little.

Cheers

Dennis

Lester Wareham wrote in post #19019167
Common blue

Surely Gatekeeper? Anyhoo, nice images

johnfosteruk wrote in post #19019436
Surely Gatekeeper? Anyhoo, nice images

Indeed, don't know what went wrong there, seem to have posted an image other than originally planned.

Speckled Wood

A couple shots from a butterfly park here in Phoenix

A very pristine Speckled wood (the LBJ of the Butterfly world, they're all pretty to me though )

A fresh, pristine female large white who came to visit the garden today.

Hide and seek with a cheeky male Orange tip.

I bought a kit so I could raise a few Swallowtail Butterflies (Papilio machaon) and this is the first one to emerge from a cocoon.

Tech Specs: Canon 80D (F11, 1/250, ISO 100) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (over 4x) + a diffused MT-26EX-RT with a Kaiser adjustable flash shoe on the "A" head (the key), E-TTL metering, -1/3 FEC). This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held. In post I used Topaz Denoise AI, Sharpen AI, and Clarity in that order.

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/2iZT​Xko

I bought a kit so I could raise a few Swallowtail Butterflies (Papilio machaon) and this is the first one to emerge from a cocoon.

Tech Specs: Canon 80D (F11, 1/250, ISO 100) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (5x) + a diffused MT-26EX-RT with a Kaiser adjustable flash shoe on the "A" head (the key), E-TTL metering, -1/3 FEC). This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held. In post I used Topaz Denoise AI, Sharpen AI, and Clarity in that order.

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/2j1f​B5p

I bought a kit so I could raise a few Swallowtail Butterflies (Papilio machaon) and this is the first one to emerge from a cocoon. I tried to get some shots of the second one I had, but it took off right away.

Tech Specs: Canon 80D (F11, 1/250, ISO 100) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (4x) + a diffused MT-26EX-RT with a Kaiser adjustable flash shoe on the "A" head (the key), E-TTL metering, -1/3 FEC). This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held. In post I used Topaz Denoise AI, Sharpen AI, and Clarity in that order. To get the depth that you see in this image I focused on the critter's proboscis and then twisted my wrist to lay the area of acceptable focus over as much of its eye as I could. So it's my technique that's making the difference and not the lens. The level of detail is also due to the quality and angle of my light.

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/2j2U​Npx

Hi all,
I just saw my first butterfly of 2020 a few weeks ago. Hope to post it soon.

Until I do, here's a shot from the recent past.

Common Blues