Peacock butterfly...

...sunning itself, along with a small companion, on some stone flags in my garden back in August. A 'flatty' so no red/cyan glasses required.

Sigma SD14 dslr
Sigma Bigma at 500mm
f6;3
1/125
ISO400
Program AE(-1.0)
Hand Held
Processed in SPP 5.5
Neat Image and SPM

Hi David,

Either you missed focus on the Butterfly or something weird has happened to your image. The fly and stone behind the Butterfly are in focus, but the butterfly itself is very blurry/'smeary'.

David

I agree with Nick the fly bottom right is sharper than the butterfly. If it helps I too had a similar problem and a clear focusing issue on the same lines. It was resolved in my case by a Canon recall coupled with an commitment on my part to stop fiddling with settings.

The latter is easier said than done on my part.

Thanks gents, you confirmed what I thought. I normally use manual focus, but sometimes when I use
autofocus this problem occurs.

David thought it was my old eyes but Nick confirmed my thoughts..
Keith.

Hand held - means you probably simply either breathed and/or moved slightly, so shifting the focus point. If you've nothing to support the lens/camera on, then it sometimes helps to take a series of images, that way even if one is out, there's hope that another might be in as you sway around Seems to work after a whisky or two too

Thanks Nick, your probably right about the breathing. I'm more used to using my Fujifilm W3 cameras now, which are much lighter, even with the brilliant Cyclopital attachments. I now use a collapsible monopod with the 'Bigma' to help stabilise the camera and lens. I put the image on, more to stimulate some debate/comment, than anything else, due to the seeming lack of interest lately, especially in anaglyphs!