Butterfly

Posted by Twelvebit (Victoria, United States) on 11 June 2007 in Animal & Insect.

I was on my way home from Austin one evening when Spring had begun to bloom and decided to pull over and see if I could get any good flower shots. To my surprise, there were butterflies everywhere, flitting about from flower to flower, so I decided to try and take some butterfly photos. It was quite difficult. I didn't manage to get any in flight and had a very hard time just getting close enough to one parked on a flower for more than a second or two.

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Comments (9)

JosefQ from Quebec City, Canada

Wow! Really awesome shot! The flower and butterfly seem to be floating in mid-air!

11 Jun 2007 2:53pm

MaryB from United Kingdom

Wow!! stunning photo, stunning butterfly :)

11 Jun 2007 6:07pm

LuisRodrigues from Lisbon, Portugal

It's the butterfly effect...great work ;)

11 Jun 2007 7:10pm

Mazrul from Johor, Malaysia

D80 user...Nice work! Perhaps, crop around the butterfly, should gave more impact to the pic...my 2cent. TQ for visiting my page

12 Jun 2007 2:09am

victor from new york, United States

...i like the framing--the stem is hidden so it looks like the butterfly is carrying the bloom...

12 Jun 2007 3:43pm

Twelvebit from Victoria, United States

Thanks all.

Mazrul, yeah, the D80 gives great detail and I probably don't take advantage of the opportunities it provides for cropping as I should. When I do crop away a good portion of a frame I'm usually amazed at the detail still remaining in the image.

17 Jun 2007 2:32pm

Jason from Hong Kong

Great pic... beautiful moment that you captured there...

18 Jun 2007 8:18pm

@Jason: Thanks Jason.

Alfredo J. Martiz J. from Tokyo, Japan

This is a wonderful photo, excellent!

12 Aug 2007 11:29pm

@Alfredo J. Martiz J.: Instead of just saying thank you after each comment, let me say thank you for all your comments here; and thank you for looking back through so many photos and expressing your opinion.

I used to use film, of course, and did something good here and there, but the expense of film and processing, and the time involved, limited the number of photos I could take, and on top of all that, the delayed feedback severely attenuated the learning experience. I took the odd snapshots here and there with various digital cameras, but it is really just now, since picking up a DSLR and starting this blog, that I'm finding out how much I really didn't know about photography and how much I have to learn. I'm finding it to be a lot more fun now, when I can instantly see what I did wrong and try to correct it, than it ever was in the days of film.

By the way, I really admire your work. Thanks again.

danthro from Suburbia, United States

WOW. This is an amazing capture. Love the colors and detail. Great composition and DOF too.

1 Apr 2008 5:14pm

@danthro: Thanks. I might be able to do better now. I didn't have my 70-300 lens back when I took this one.

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Nikon D80
1/250 second
F/10.0
ISO 200
202 mm (35mm equiv.)