Gallery: Macro & Close-upPosted September 26, 2014245 views4 comments
Blue Swallowtail. Taken at Southeastern Arizona. This is my first Butterfly posting on NPN.
D800, 300mm f/2.8 + TC20 III, 1/800 f/6.3 ISO 500
Comments and suggestions are always appreciated.
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Comment posted by Howard Cheek on September 27, 2014 at 9:58 AM
Nice details/stop action (they're always moving), and you've managed the exposure well Tjie.
I like the vertical framing with the neg. space front, great macro work!
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Comment posted by Mark Seaver on September 27, 2014 at 7:14 PM
Nicely captured, Tjie. The sharpness of the plant works very well and you've got the bf sharp where it matters most set against a nicely oof background. Because I'm interested in butterflies and where they live, I went looking to find your "Blue Swallowtail". It looks to me like this is the Eastern Black Swallowtail (Papilio polyxenes) and one of their characteristics is that they are almost constantly flapping their wings, which explains the softness of the wings in your image.
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Comment posted by scott lanz on September 29, 2014 at 12:32 AM
Very nice, Tjie. I like the contrasting blue and pink color against the clean background. Excellent!
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Comment posted by Ian Wolfenden on October 1, 2014 at 4:46 PM
Very lovely, delicately coloured image, Tjie ! The detail and choice of dof and background are also excellent.
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4 commentsI like the vertical framing with the neg. space front, great macro work!