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Panolyman
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- Brian
The detail in the wings is outstanding.
It almost looks like a tapestry.
Panolyman
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This was a Red Admiral that landed on a pair of my gardening gloves I'd just taken off.
It stayed there for quite some time either drinking in some nectar or the sweat from my hands.
It stayed there for quite some time either drinking in some nectar or the sweat from my hands.
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Pauhana
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OCBeyer
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- Ellicott City, Maryland, USA
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- Christian (Otto) Beyer
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- Cambridgeshire, UK.
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- Charles
Pauhana
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- Middle Tennessee
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Pauhana
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OCBeyer
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- Christian (Otto) Beyer
L0n3Gr3yW0lf
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The big and beautiful Red Admiral I found earlier, this time with the RAW file edited.
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I got a few better shots then I initially thought.
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Hopefully next time I will have my Oly 40-150mm f 2.8 PRO with me so I won't scare them off so quickly.
L0n3Gr3yW0lf
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I do love this shot because it's not always easy to get a composition with enough space to have subject separation against a busy background, especially at f 13. And because butterflies can be a lot easier to spook then bees or bumblebees getting in close with a 120mm equivalent lens is never easy.
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A very interesting thing that I have noticed is how much of a difference just the tiniest amount of light can change the look. The butterfly moved just a little bit from the image above and the light from the sun was not reaching the side of his face and body (or it could have been the wind instead of him moving because he was swinging like it was Elvis playing live). With a darker face it doesn't look as nice as the evenly lit look from above BUT it's a very easy thing to fix with a adjustment brush of +0.66 EV painted over the darker area. I kept both images because I love this little tidbit of contrast.
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Now for a more artistical presentation
... But it wasn't intentional, just a happy accident that a mix of wind, the butterfly trying to fly away and a not enough shutter speed and flash made for an interesting image. Sometimes good things just happens.
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Originally I thought that this was a moth becaus of the folded wings but after editing I saw that it has a proboscis which is not something I see very often, but I don't know exactly what it is.
Bill in Texas
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L0n3Gr3yW0lf
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But you do such an amazing justice to the butterflies... Well at least this one.
