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A male common blue butterfly basking in some summer sunshine on a bright and breezy Sunday afternoon in the masts field at Prestbury Hill nature reserve near Cheltenham. Many thanks for all the c&c's on my recent uploads, I shall endeavour to catch up with what you've all been up to recently as soon as i've the time.
| Brand: | Canon |
| Camera: | Canon EOS 600D |
| Lens: | 70.0 - 300.0 mm (35 mm equivalent: 577.5 - 2475.1 mm) |
| Recording media: | JPEG (digital) |
| Date Taken: | 24 Jun 2012 - 4:41 PM |
| Focal Length: | 300mm |
| Aperture: | f/5.6 |
| Shutter Speed: | 1/500sec |
| Exposure Comp: | 0.0 |
| ISO: | 125 |
| Exposure Mode: | Not Defined |
| Metering Mode: | Evaluative |
| Flash: | Off, Did not fire |
| Title: | Prestbury Hill Blue |
| Username: | 
Glostopcat |
| Uploaded: | 30 Jun 2012 - 12:02 PM |
| Tags: | Butterfly conservation, Close-up / macro, Common blue butterfly, Glos, Prestbury hill nature reserve, Wildlife / nature |
| Votes: | 65 |
| Modifications Welcome (Upload a Modification) |
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Very difficult not to oversharpen these, but this is oversharpened, I agree with Ade, and Ive loaded a mod with less sharpening. Could well be a little too much less, but you can at least see it makes quite a difference. I would also crop to place the Butterfly on a third. try not to use those borders that are the same as the dominant colour as the shot, - they dont work well. The purpose of a border is to frame, meaning indicate the edge of a shot, and these ones done do that. Ive includes a different frame in the mod to show what I mean.
Good effort though at 300mm.
regards
Willie
Many thanks to Carol and Eric for the user awards and to Willie for his excellent mod and advice, it is greatly appreciated, Ed
Many thanks for all your comments and clicks, they are much appreciated, Ed
No there aren't, you have to look hard to find the ones that are around, there have been nothing like the numbers in previous years
wonderful iridescent blue! You certainly won't get the blues about this one.
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