Gatekeeper Butterfly Eye
In a break between showers this afternoon, I wandered around the garden with the camera and I had the macro lens and NiSi +9 dioptre close up lens attached. I was trying to photo graph a second brood Holly Blue, but it didn't settle. Then this gatekeeper flew onto one of our pyracantha bushes and seemed to settle for the night. It let me get obligingly close (it's still there at the time of posting this) and this is its eye...The NiSi close up lens is very sharp but has a very thin depth of field. This is at F/14 and 160th of a second with 1/8 power flash. I'd like to try and photostack, but my hands weren't steady enough!
Gatekeeper Butterfly Eye
In a break between showers this afternoon, I wandered around the garden with the camera and I had the macro lens and NiSi +9 dioptre close up lens attached. I was trying to photo graph a second brood Holly Blue, but it didn't settle. Then this gatekeeper flew onto one of our pyracantha bushes and seemed to settle for the night. It let me get obligingly close (it's still there at the time of posting this) and this is its eye...The NiSi close up lens is very sharp but has a very thin depth of field. This is at F/14 and 160th of a second with 1/8 power flash. I'd like to try and photostack, but my hands weren't steady enough!