Butterfly basking

OAKEY (e2 Member)

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9 Feb 2012 - 6:25 PM

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Nice detailed close up, well done.
Shaun

banehawi (Critique Team)

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9 Feb 2012 - 8:39 PM

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Its a nice shot overall. If you looks at your settings, wide aperture and fast shutter speed, - you will easily get a good shot hand held, ad you are well over the minimum shutter s[eed for this.


If you examine the shot closely, you will see the centre line of the butterfly is in focus, - but both wongs are going out of focus. This si due to the small aperture, - so normally, you wopuld chose a much smaller aperture for a shot like this to get maximum dof, - and then you would run into the slower shutter speeds issue, hand holding, etc, and perhaps have to increase ISO.

For Butterfly shots in particular, you will find that most images of then are shot side on, - where you dont need much dof, - or straight down, when the wings are flat, - again for the same reason.

Good work nevertheless. I think that bright branch should be cropped out, - so in the mod I suggest a square crop, - and I would think about de saturing colour somewhat, - its a little too intense.


regards


Willie

paulbroad

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10 Feb 2012 - 8:04 AM

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A nice shot and quite well done. Butterflies are a wide insect and, if you are going to shoot at f3.5, you need to be composing with the wings flat across the frame, not from front to back. Depth of field, this close, will be less than a millimetre at f3.5. There are uses for wide apertures in macro, but if you are shooting pictorial record, as here, you needed f11, f16.

Paul