Common Blue in the grass

Posted by CactusD on Sun Sep 07, 2014 1:36 pm

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Polyommatus icarus

A shot from my favourite local nature reserve.
Taken handheld with me lying flat on the ground…!

Nikon D800E/200f4micro/cpl/SB600+softbox
ISO 1000 1/320 f/16

Cheers for looking!
Dave

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by wtracyparnell on Sun Sep 07, 2014 7:02 pm

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Love the combination of backlight and fill, beautiful background as well, very nice indeed.

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by Tom Whelan on Sun Sep 07, 2014 8:14 pm

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Lovely pose and setting - pretty blue hues around the head and body.

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by Matthew Pugh on Mon Sep 08, 2014 9:52 am

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Hi

A lovely frame filling image of this wonderful chap - decent DOF as well for that pose

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by Jim Urbach on Tue Sep 09, 2014 3:12 pm

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real neat BF and image, David

Enjoy viewing

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by nymphalidae65 on Tue Sep 16, 2014 5:40 am

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You did a good job controlling the focus on the eye

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