Metamorphosis -Chrysalis
by Wayne Jones
I don’t know if pairs of photos are usual in this gallery, so feel free to move this if it’s out of place.
I have not been out shooting much lately, but it was easy to document the changes after my granddaughter’s “pet” monarch butterfly larva pupated. (We put a couple of potted milkweeds in an old aquarium when she found an almost-full-grown caterpillar. The butterfly is now on its way to Mexico.) I found that backlighting best illustrated this stage of the metamorphosis.
Canon 50D
Sigma 150 mm. f/2.8 Macro
1.6 sec. @ f/6.3; ISO 100
Tripod; 2-sec. timer
Natural backlighting with reflector fill.
Each image is 8-10 exposures focus-stacked in CS5
Comments
11 comments- Luke
I have photographed monarch chrysalises and emerging butterflies, but never a photo like yours on the right. Kudos to you!
Way to go
Carol
GARY: The background is different in the second image because (1) it was shot almost two weeks after the first shot; (2) I moved the "cage" to avoid the wind, and to keep the light similar to the first shot, since one was shot in the morning, and the other in the afternoon; and (3) I replaced the foliage behind the chrysalis after the original plant there lost a most of its color.
Sandy r