Swallow-tailed moth

At work last week when the wife called to say that she had found a beautiful moth on the front door. I asked her to pop it into a jar if possible. On returning home I tried to coax it onto a nice leaf for a picture but, being a sensible white moth who wanted to live, it promptly flew onto the light coloured wall of an outbuilding we have in the garden. Took a few pictures before leaving him/her in peace.


as ever c&c welcome

Techs
50D 100mm f2.8 Macro tripod mounted
1/200 @ f8 ISO400 -0.67
cs4 and dfine for noise reduction

Hi Dennis really like it, I think the subtle colour difference works well. Looks a little dark on my screen.

Scott

a very nice moth, I don't think I've ever seen one of these. A nice shot.

Matt

A splendid looking moth... the right hand wing tip seems to be slightly out of the DoF... if you had time perhaps a couple of exposures and then combine them?

Good choice on the framing when the bg isn't great.

A splendid record shot of a really nice Swallowtailed moth (Ourapteryx sambucaria). Very slight nit covered by Phil but well done in the circumstances.

Brett

Nice moth Dennis, Your experience reminded me of the one I posted sometime ago.
Put them on the wrong perch and they wont have it.
The Bg here works well.

Major

Stubborn little so and so's lol, but at least you achieved a good result.

Fran

Thanks for the advice and comments - I've never tried stacking several images - I'll give it a try the next opportunity I get

dennis