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I was able to get real close to this guy. This was about the best angle I could get with the leaf and all.
Fern Forest Nature Center, Coconut Creek, Florida. I didn't notice the tiny visitor in the lower right had corner until I was looking at it in Lightroom.
Painted lady butterfly feeding on valerian. The first one I've managed some shots of this year. I have seen it a few times in the last week.
The weather is perfect and I'm off to Yellowstone Park for the weekend. I'll catch up with everyone in a few days. :-)
A quick comparison of the lenses I can use for macro with around 2X magnification. Thought I could share it... I don't own a dedicated macro lens, but I'm still happy with the results.
The subject was a dead butterfly I found a while ago, it looks a bit strange with the broken antennas. It is also always a challenge to get the light right for macros, even in the "studio". Here I used a yoghurt-cup mounted in a Pringles-tube as diffusor and placed a piece of aluminum foil beneath the insect to get the lower part brighter.
The comparison pieces are 100% crops from the untouched raw-images, shown in (how I think) chronological order. A relarively new 35/1.8, a Nikkor 35-70 from analog times, a Canon 50/1.8 and a Fujinon 50/1.4. (Click the links in the image notes to see the details) I tried to keep the viewing angle, magnification and focal plane identical, but I did not completely succeed.
An external flash with a diffusor was used set to minimum power, so all the shots were taken at the same amount of light.
My winner is the Fujinon lens, followed by the Nikkor 35-70. Contrast and grain is pretty good. This is more or less the result I expected, I'm happy my 35-70 performes still good, since I bought and modified it especially for macro. The Canon lens was very bright, and the results here could be caused by diffraction, since I had to close the aperture quite a lot. I'm a bit disappointed by the Nikkor 35/1.8, but anyway the lens is not my favorite since it sometimes produces some ugly CA even in "normal" use.
The large image is a bigger crop of the Fujinon test shot.
Comments and favs are highly appreciated! I'll be sure to look at your stream.
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Freshly hatched butterfly at the Conservatory of Flowers, San Francisco. (Did I say they were all going to be SPs? Sorry, that may not be true - this was better than the SPs I took this week.)
Took a visit to Fort Picklecombe this week and came across lots of thistles and brambles that were rich pickings for the butterflies and bees. I had no idea the little critter on the right was in shot because I was concentrating so much on the marble white. Thank you for looking.
Rare and Beautiful Butterflies :
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The Large Copper (Lycaena dispar) is a European butterfly of the family Lycaenidae.
This was the first of this species that I have ever seen and I was lucky that I met a beautiful buterfly ...
It was a while before I saw this one and then had to follow it for a while before it stopped long enough for me to get a photo.
I am disappointed I didn't manage a really sharp photo, but I am happy that we were able to see this beautiful butterflies...
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