Flash Photography - _TNY_6920
The Haga Ocean butterfly house in Solna, Sweden, has a no-flash policy for visitors, but yesterday I got to enjoy an exception and was allowed in with my Canon 100/2.8L and diffused flash.
Shooting was very different when able to handhold instead of being limited by the tripod.
One additional nice thing was that because the week before the last one was Easter holliday for the schools in the Stockholm area, they had ordered an additional shipment of chrysalides - but it got delayed on the way here from Costa Rica so yesterday, there were extra many butterflies - but without the extra people.
The beauty here is a green-banded peacock (Papilio palinurus), also known as the emerald swallowtail. Looking at it in this shot, the "emerald" and "green-banded" don't make a whole lot of sense, but seing it with the wings opened makes the name very apparent. Like here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/53649253354/
Flash Photography - _TNY_6920
The Haga Ocean butterfly house in Solna, Sweden, has a no-flash policy for visitors, but yesterday I got to enjoy an exception and was allowed in with my Canon 100/2.8L and diffused flash.
Shooting was very different when able to handhold instead of being limited by the tripod.
One additional nice thing was that because the week before the last one was Easter holliday for the schools in the Stockholm area, they had ordered an additional shipment of chrysalides - but it got delayed on the way here from Costa Rica so yesterday, there were extra many butterflies - but without the extra people.
The beauty here is a green-banded peacock (Papilio palinurus), also known as the emerald swallowtail. Looking at it in this shot, the "emerald" and "green-banded" don't make a whole lot of sense, but seing it with the wings opened makes the name very apparent. Like here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/53649253354/