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Wednesday, 8 June 2016

The painted lady butterfly with the Canon 100mm f2.8 image stabilised L lens

I recently purchased a macro lens with image stabilising of up to 3 or 4 stops built in.

I wanted to be able to select a small aperture with a slow speed to enable hand held photos, I am not a fan of tripods for these type of pictures.

This enabled me to hand hold these two photos of a painted lady butterfly supping nectar on our pyracantha bush at f16  1/40th of a second ISO 200.

The second picture may be the one for purists but I like the first for the sheer detail in such a wonderful creature.

All the way from Africa


The lens with the hood attached useless for macro work far to close to the subject scaring the beastie and blocking the light



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4 comments:

  1. Sue Garrett9 June 2016 at 00:37

    It is a beautiful creature and amazing that such a delicate thing can make such a long journey. It wasn't until I took started taking close-ups of butterflies I noticed they had stripey antennae - the wonder of photography.

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  2. Shrimpton and Perfect9 June 2016 at 03:00

    Outstanding pics.

    Jean

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    1. David Ford9 June 2016 at 04:45

      Thanks Jean hope all is well with you and yours

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  3. David Ford9 June 2016 at 03:01

    I echo your thoughts I looked at your latest mirror less camera very impressive results but I didn't find any lenses that you purchased with it

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