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Three's Company

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Posted by Fran French on June 13, 2010 at 4:02 PM
Three's Company
And four is a crowd of Common Blues... that I found, when Phil and I went to our local patch to capture these beauties roosting on Saturday evening. We had a field day as there were so many of them, and it was a job to know which ones to choose to photograph! That said, these guys caught my eye.

It is a shame that one is not a perfect specimen, but I was thrilled to find so many on one small grass stem.

40D, 300mm + 1.4 t/c and tubes, f7, ISO 500,1/80 small crop off the top.

Fran :toast:
Posted by Ron McCombe on June 13, 2010 at 4:10 PM
very nice, I love the composition here

well done

Ron
Posted by Shaun Simpson on June 13, 2010 at 4:15 PM
Your just being greedy 4 at once :smile: love the composition
Posted by John Robinson on June 13, 2010 at 5:37 PM
Yes -greedy Fran again. Phil spraying 'em with hair lacquer to stop the flying off!! :biggrin: :biggrin: :smile: :wink: :wavey: :wavey: :wavey: :wavey:
JR
Posted by john macpherson on June 13, 2010 at 5:40 PM
This is great! Really love the soft lighting and detail.
Posted by Paul King on June 13, 2010 at 6:36 PM
A nice quadsom really nice light and detail
Posted by Dave Bartlett on June 14, 2010 at 3:41 AM
Great comp and detail and spot on background. Well done on finding four together too!
Posted by Matt Cole on June 14, 2010 at 4:11 AM
that's a very impressive shot Fran. I've never seen Common Blues in such concentrations. A minor nit would be that the wing tips of the right hand pair of butterflies look a bit soft so stopping down a bit more might have helped here, but otherwise an excellent shot.

Matt :toast:
Posted by Stephen Kaluski on June 14, 2010 at 6:17 AM
Ticks the boxes for me Fran. :toast:

Steve :wavey:
Posted by Craig Jones on June 14, 2010 at 6:28 AM
Wonderful to get some many in this photo :eek: amazing really, love the composition and great detail Fran :wink: :wink: :wavey:
Posted by Phil Mclean on June 14, 2010 at 7:17 AM
Excellent image Fran.Matt has mentioned the only nit.Well done.

Phil. :toast:
Posted by Barry Southon on June 14, 2010 at 10:21 AM
Fran

Yet more inspiration and fourfold,
:wink:
Posted by Simon Litten on June 14, 2010 at 10:33 AM
You've every right to be thrilled! Nice one :toast:


Simon
Posted by Fran French on June 14, 2010 at 12:03 PM
Thanks all for your comments, much appreciated.

Fran :toast: :toast:
Posted by PhilH on June 14, 2010 at 1:43 PM
Knew I should have listened to you.... a lovely and unique result x

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Posted by Robert Lawrence on June 14, 2010 at 1:57 PM
A stunning composition and despite comments regarding the slight loss of focus on some parts of individual butterflies the overall amount of detail is great. I'm quite envious of the quality of images showing a single insect but to have four in one shot and still get a great composition and a delightfully smooth background is brilliant. I'd be over the moon with this Fran.
Posted by Austin Thomas on June 14, 2010 at 2:36 PM
That is just showing off Fran !!

Excellent stuff.

Cheers

Austin
Posted by Brett Lewis on June 15, 2010 at 8:44 AM
You did very well considering the windy conditions we're having..

Brett :toast: