A few more butterflies

[PaulE]

I finally mangaed to get out and about today to try and capture a few more butterflies to add to the collection. The wind was a bit of a pain which made me miss the focus in far too many shots, next time I'll save myself some time and wait for it to drop completely. Not quite up to the standard of lastyears photos but it's a start at least.

I managed to get these two with E510 and 35mm macro:




I think these are both Large Whites? please let me know if I'm wrong...

And then just out of interest I tried the 70-300mm - I have always turned to the 35mm macro for these kind of shots in the past despite the short working distance. I only managed this speckled wood before the wind picked up and wrecked any other chances of a decent photo:


I don't think the resolution comes anywhere near close to what the 35mm macro is capable of but admittedly it was handheld at 300mm at ISO 400.

I'm sure there must have been a load of butterfly photos taken today given the sunshine anyone got any others to share?
Paul.

[art frames]

Re: A few more butterflies

Paul

I haven't processed the butterflies yet, do dragons and damsels count?

BTW. pleased to see you posting the large white, a much abused butterfly, just because of a few brassicas - and possessive gardeners

Here are a large red damselfly and broad bodied chaser dragonfly









Nice sunshine, hopefully more to come.

best wishes

Peter

[art frames]

Re: A few more butterflies

Paul

Sorry for the off topic shots but here is a butterfly as asked. A green hairstreak, lovely butterflies, hard to spot (for obvious reasons) and never look right in photos. It is a bright iridescent green...



The wind was a problem. I have lots of poor focus shots too.

best wishes

[PaulE]

Re: A few more butterflies

Nice pictures Peter, I knew I wouldn't be the only one to get a few insects. I never knew damsel flies came in a red variety I've seen loads of the common blue and olive versions but never a red one. An olive one from last year with E410 + 70-300:


I have to include the boring butteflies like the Orange Tips and Large Whites as there seems to be a limit to the number of species around here - certainly never seen a green one as in your last photo. Maybe when there are more garden flowers in bloom there will be a few of the more exotic species to photograph.

One more from yesterday (with 35mm macro again):

[ringneck]

Re: A few more butterflies

WOW....... ALL the above shots are Brilliant,especially the 1st 2 B'Flies.
Best I could do yesterday was a comparison test with the e500 and e510 on a Banded Damselfly.
Both f3.2...1/250...iso 100 and 105mm.

1st one the E 500.........



This one the E510.......



Both as shot ...NO cropping.

A BIG improvement needed...think i will have to get on the tripod (awkward as they like stingers) to get better aperture.

[PaulE]

Re: A few more butterflies

WOW....... ALL the above shots are Brilliant,especially the 1st 2 B'Flies.
Best I could do yesterday was a comparison test with the e500 and e510 on a Banded Damselfly.

Both as shot ...NO cropping.

A BIG improvement needed...think i will have to get on the tripod (awkward as they like stingers) to get better aperture.

Opps missed this last weekend, sorry ringneck. The look very nice to me you seem to have plenty of depth of field for only F3.2 - I suppose that's one clear advantage of being able to stay further away with the sigma 105mm? F3.5 on the 35mm macro at that magnification and you'd be really struggling with DOF due to being so close.

The sun was shining here again today so managed to get one more species, a Small Copper as far as I can tell? pitty the was the odd gust of wind - it caused me to miss a few far better photos.





This one (same butterfly in both photos) was easily the most skittish of all the butterflies I have managed so far yet oddly when disturbed it took a lap of half the field only to return to within a few feet of where it started (and where I still was) which made a nice change