Small pearl Bordered Fritillary
In hundreds of shots of these , I've never really been able to get the silver splashes right on the underside of the wing. This is the nearest yet I think. Its a bit noisy as it was taken in the late evening at a roost site nearby. There's a bit of fill flash too.
Resting on Juncus.
Can't remember exact exif but something like
D200 Sigma 150 mm macro. Tripod
800 ISO 20th second @f11
Full Frame
Cheers
JohnR
Thanks
That was the whole purpose of the shot - keeping it dark to get the the silver to show. There's not a lot of light at 8.30 at night in an Oak forest.
JR
Would a portrait or squarer format have helped to cut out some of the dark background.The butterfly/plant are excellent and I think it is just the amount of darkness that needs reducing.
Hi John, I think I agree with Phil, a crop in from the left to cut out some of the darker background would help. I love the feel of the subject, and see what you were going for. I'd be happy with it.
Thanks
Have tried but don't want to loose the "late evening "effect. Noise more obvious too.
See what you think.
JR
Posted by Simon Litten on June 14, 2010 at 10:43 AM
Much prefer the full frame version - its a nicely composed image. The square crop to me just says 'this is a butterfly' and the 'artistic eye' of the photographer is lost.
Nice image all round though - needs to be seen large to really appreciate I'd imagine as low light images always lose a lot on a web jpeg.
John prefer the darker image, problem with some small images on the web is that the balance changes and I suspect that this is the case with this one - the dark is dominating, the colours in the butterfly are stunning and I feel thay would show up even more so in a larger print and balance everything out, maybe just lighten the bg a tad and leave it full frame.
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8 repliesIn hundreds of shots of these , I've never really been able to get the silver splashes right on the underside of the wing. This is the nearest yet I think. Its a bit noisy as it was taken in the late evening at a roost site nearby. There's a bit of fill flash too.
Resting on Juncus.
Can't remember exact exif but something like
D200 Sigma 150 mm macro. Tripod
800 ISO 20th second @f11
Full Frame
Cheers
JohnR
That was the whole purpose of the shot - keeping it dark to get the the silver to show. There's not a lot of light at 8.30 at night in an Oak forest.
JR
Phil.
Have tried but don't want to loose the "late evening "effect. Noise more obvious too.
See what you think.
JR
Nice image all round though - needs to be seen large to really appreciate I'd imagine as low light images always lose a lot on a web jpeg.
Simon
I prefer the original composition and the brighter image on the repost, so a combination of the two would be my preference. Lovely subject.
Cheers
Austin