Re: [OM] IMG: Another Butterfly

[Jim Nichols]

Thanks, Dean.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
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From: "Dean Hansen" <hanse112@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 9:23 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: Another Butterfly


> Jim recently posted:
>
> "Here is another butterfly visitor to my favorite bush.  Hand-held, but 
> this
> one liked to pose for me.
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Another+Butterfly.jpg.html
> Best viewed large.
> Comments and critiques are always welcomed."
>
> Judging from the shadow of the antenna across the butterfly's eye, the
> sun is nearly overhead.  It's also just slightly back lighting the
> subject, and thus not shining obliquely across the visible side of the
> wings, so the wing veins aren't brought out as well as they could be.
> This is tough to get with a subject one can't tell to please reposition
> slightly--butterfly photography, without a flash, can be pretty hit or
> miss as far as lighting goes.  Compare the right and left wings in a
> shot I took of a tiger swallowtail at
> <http://s124.photobucket.com/albums/p15/Dean_Hansen/MNButterflies/?action=view&current=TSathawkweed5.jpg>.
> The sunlight (no flash on this shot) is shining obliquely across the
> right wings and showing more detail than is visible in the left wings.
> (Sorry, these Photobucket shots are pretty low-resolution files--the
> oblique lighting effect in this photo is more obvious in a print.)  When
> I'm shooting butterflies, I have a T32 or T20 flash on a Bogen Magic Arm
> to position the flash above and to the side of the butterfly's wings.  I
> try to get the light from the flash to graze the surface of the the
> wings at, I'd guess, about 10 degrees.  The downside of using a flash
> with butterflies is that the background may become very dark.
>    Good job, Jim.  But see if you can somehow pull a Dr. Doolittle and
> talk to those little guys--"Hold still for just a few seconds" or maybe
> "Tilt a bit to your right, please."  If you're successful, please let
> other butterfly photographers know how you do it.
> Dean
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