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Posted by tony flashman on May 24, 2008 at 5:11 PM
Small Blue
To make a change from my normal weekend chasing birds (feathered) around the Kent country side, I spent a few hours chasing these guys instead. I wish I had used a smaller aperture to gain more DOF. Despite having more images with good DOF I like this image, its full frame.

Nikon D2x
Sigma 180 macro
Benbo MK1
Kirk head
1000 sec
f4
200 iso
Posted by John Robinson on May 24, 2008 at 7:52 PM
Not seen these for a year or two.
Nice pic .
To me the OOF bits are a little distracting.
Cheers
johnR
Posted by Ian Andrews on May 25, 2008 at 1:53 AM
Glad you got some keepers Tony, all mine went to the recycle bin! :frown:

Well worth the effort, and thanks for some great company.

Ian :toast: :toast:
Posted by PhilH on May 25, 2008 at 5:04 AM
Nice one although I'm with John and would prefer more DoF.

Speak soon

:toast: :wavey: :toast:
Posted by Matt Cole on May 25, 2008 at 5:33 AM
it looks pretty good to me Tony and a nice looking butterfly. A bit more DOF would help all parts of the butterfly to be sharp but then you tend to get a more cluttered background. Decisions, decisions... :smile:

Matt
Posted by Bertl Menegoni on May 25, 2008 at 7:07 AM
Hi tony,
very good cought, I how nervous these little guys are. :smile:

Bertl
Posted by Paul Inglis on May 25, 2008 at 7:42 AM
Hi Tony,

Superb capture! I like the depth of feild as it is! If you had of stopped down any more the background would have become too busy IMHO!
:toast: :toast: :toast:
Posted by Alan Woolnough on May 25, 2008 at 11:24 AM
Nicely done Tony,

Always a personal 'judgement call', with regards to dof in certain situations.

Looks good to my eye :toast:

Alan
Posted by Greg Hitchcock on May 25, 2008 at 4:01 PM
A nice shot, I do like it. I agree with Paul - I tend to prefer shallow dof that centres on the important bits rather than ending up with a distracting background. Well done on snapping an elusive butterfly.

Greg
Posted by Brett Lewis on May 25, 2008 at 4:13 PM
Hi Tony,

Hard to say how I'd prefer to see this shot as in some respects I agree about the lack of DOF but in the other extreme I enjoy seeing subjects in their environment and that's seems to be what you've achieved here and on that level it works for me.

Brett