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Images => Nature, Flora, Fauna & Landscapes => Topic started by: Tom Hook on September 18, 2016, 01:45:17

Title: Barbed Wire, Joe Pye Weed and Monarch Butterfly
Post by: Tom Hook on September 18, 2016, 01:45:17

Cassidy Road, Southbury, Connecticut. September 17, 2016

Title: Re: Barbed Wire, Joe Pye Weed and Monarch Butterfly
Post by: Mongo on September 18, 2016, 08:39:33

even at this distance, this image looks extremely sharp, clear and great colour. What lens did you use Tom - It comes up as 550mm focal length ??

Title: Re: Barbed Wire, Joe Pye Weed and Monarch Butterfly
Post by: Fons Baerken on September 18, 2016, 09:10:19

the barbed wire creates the right tension

Title: Re: Barbed Wire, Joe Pye Weed and Monarch Butterfly
Post by: Jakov Minić on September 18, 2016, 09:25:12

Tom, this is a super capture!

Title: Re: Barbed Wire, Joe Pye Weed and Monarch Butterfly
Post by: John G on September 18, 2016, 11:57:27

Hi
   I have viewed three of my subject choices combined in one image, Isolating barbed wire is a fetish of mine, butterflies and flowers are serene.
   Very nice capture .

Title: Re: Barbed Wire, Joe Pye Weed and Monarch Butterfly
Post by: rosko on September 18, 2016, 13:27:49

Well done, Tom !

I think you have some margin to slightly crop your image to get the butterfly more visible.

However, your image is very nice as it is ! ;)

Title: Re: Barbed Wire, Joe Pye Weed and Monarch Butterfly
Post by: Tom Hook on September 18, 2016, 17:33:53

Thanks everyone for commenting. I'm glad you like the image.

Mongo, I used a 400 G plus a 1.4 teleconverter, I don't know why it reads 550 instead of 560 but then again, I don't know how to read exif files with any great certitude so the whys and wherefores more often than not elude me. I will say, the 400 is far and away my favorite lens. While I would love to have the new one (if I could afford it), it would be primarily because of the weight. The 400 G is wonderful in every other regard.

John and Fons, it was the barbed wire which made the shot worth taking and then the butterfly appeared! I was lucky to get as clear a shot as I did. Butterflies in flight are much more difficult for me than birds and the final outcome more often depends on good fortune and any skill is a unconscious residue of the process.

Francis, I take your point about the crop. My  version is uncropped as I set up the stationary subject with all the camera paraphernalia on a tripod. What was the surprise was I didn't count on the butterfly which suddenly appeared on the backside of the flower and then flew off. When I was able to grab one shot of the monarch in flight, it changed the shot making the butterfly the star of the show. I have tried a recrop and here it is. I like them both for different reasons. Is this what you had in mind? 

Title: Re: Barbed Wire, Joe Pye Weed and Monarch Butterfly
Post by: rosko on September 18, 2016, 19:31:21

Quote from: Tom Hook on September 18, 2016, 17:33:53

I have tried a recrop and here it is. I like them both for different reasons. Is this what you had in mind?

Yes, Tom, this exactely what I had in mind. As you said, the butterfly becomes the main subject... ;)