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Butterfly Eye Candy (flight and a still)

Started Mar 13, 2016 | Photos
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vass Senior Member • Posts: 1,929
Butterfly Eye Candy (flight and a still)
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A few weeks ago on a walk in an old birding track that is heavily overgrown in a nature reserve near me I came across these Common Crow Butterflies hanging around a bush. The only problem was the lighting wasn't 100% up to scratch due to the large tree shadows and cloud haze blocking the sun but I was confident I could pull something off and gave it a go for 40 minutes or so for 2 days.
Anyway most of the photo's were a little under exposed but I managed to bring the highlights shadows up a little and was pleased with the results.
They are a fairly dark subject and not the easiest to capture but I managed to get the shutter high enough to freeze their eratic behaviour and got some doubles and triples in the one photo

regards,

Vas

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Colin Smith1 Senior Member • Posts: 1,104
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Great job.  I assume you were using the 40-150 Pro?

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My word, those are excellent!! Kudos for your perseverance.

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first two and last one, look fantastic - almost unreal - with these monochromatic b-flies. lovely

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TClair
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Beautiful and amazing images!

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Thanks Collin
yes and with mc-14

Colin Smith1 wrote:

Great job. I assume you were using the 40-150 Pro?

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Elchanan wrote:

My word, those are excellent!! Kudos for your perseverance.

Thank you

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first two and last one, look fantastic - almost unreal - with these monochromatic b-flies. lovely

Thank you for the comment

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TClair wrote:

Beautiful and amazing images!

Thank you

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Well done Vas, another excellent set, really like the first and last shots

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Very nice Vas, these are all fantastic and lovely captures!

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