Butterfly and a stacked spider

Using a 75-300 zoom with the 2 dioptre Canon close up lens seems a tolerably good combo until I can get a real macro lens. Both these shots were taken using that combo.

Today I went looking brown hairstreak butterflies, but it's a poor year following the summer deluge and I didn't see a single one. As compensation I caught this male brimstone butterfly. Hand held, autofocus.

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Super Brimstone. Lovely shot. Not seen any of these.
Spider stack is great.

Lovely backlighting on the brimstone. A great capture.

Nice spider shot too. I can just see the halos around the web as clue to the fact it's been stacked, but a super effort.

Brimstone shot is very nice indeed - especially like the light through the wings. Spider shot does nothing for me - sorry its too harsh looking.

Linda

Thanks Bernie & Linda.

. Yeah, I think you're right. I was a bit unsure as to whether it needed sharpening at all. I usually add a bit to posted pics to compensate for the reduced image size but probably should have left it off this one altogether. I used the on-camera flash as well, which doesn't help. Still, the stack worked ok.

great shots!

Lovely Butterfly Eccles, not overly liking the spider though, the stacking hasn't improved it, the web doesn't look right.

Lovely butterfly-
Good stack but not keen on the angle- combinezm sharpens the pics during processing so you don't need to sharpen it again.
Brian V.

Hi Eccles really nice Brimstone very nicely backlit
I'm going out to look for these when I finish work in the morning
Pete

Thanks again all. Guess I've got to work a bit harder with the stacking. It's fun to play with though and an amazing program for a freebie.

beautiful Brimstone, love the back lighting.

Nice shots...even of the spider....webs are so beautiful