A good rule of thumb (John Shaw) is to go early in the
morning when the butterflies are relatively motionless
and will have greater tolerance for intrusion into their
zone of comfort.
If you want a real close up of a living butterfly,
forget 50mm or 90mm macro lenses. You will need
something like a 300mm telephoto + ext tube.
For really good detail you can use either of the
above macros or something similar, but the subject
will have to be incapacitated somehow.
-Tim
> Alex wrote:
> >
> >I had the opportunity to shoot some butterflies recently and
> >discovered it was rather tough--especially since they did not
> >like an approach closer than 6 feet (for obvious evolutionary
> >reasons)!
>
> (((SNIP)))
>
> >I would like to hear of tips and tricks of other butterfly shooters,
> >irregardless of lenses used!
>
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