Blomfild’s Beauty


Posted by Craig Lipski on Mon Mar 12, 2018 8:28 am

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Blomfild’s Beauty
Smyma blomfildia

I was exciteded when I heard that this rare visitor was present, but disappointed when I saw it.  He never opened his wings, although the underside is pretty darn cool, and he was in deep shade against a bright bg, and me with no flash!  I was very pleasantly surprised that I was able to work this up in post.  Now if I could just do something about the moire. . . .

1D MkIV
100-400 4.5-5.6 MkIi + 1.4xII
f/11, 1/30s
iso 1000
Handheld, natural light

Between the crop factor, the zoom, and the t.c, that’s effectively 728mm @ 1/30 sec - I made and threw out a lot of attempts, but thank God for IS!!!

Comments and suggestions always welcome.


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by Tom Whelan on Mon Mar 12, 2018 10:28 pm
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Fine image and a cool find. Beautiful species.
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by Matthew Pugh on Wed Mar 14, 2018 10:05 am
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Hi

Well I would be more than happy to capture a rare species in such a delightful manner - personally I stick to tripod nowadays for macro lol


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by Craig Lipski on Wed Mar 14, 2018 12:11 pm
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Matthew Pugh wrote:Hi

Well I would be more than happy to capture a rare species in such a delightful manner - personally I stick to tripod nowadays for macro lol


All the best
Matthew


Thanks!  How do you get little beasties to hold still?  (This one did, but that’s not the norm.)
 

by Matthew Pugh on Thu Mar 15, 2018 8:27 am
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Well - I guess it all down to what works for you the best; I find now that I am older handholding macro images a lot harder to get good results consistently. So while using a tripod might limit opportunities, the results are more consistently accurate from the available ones. Hopefully that makes some sense. But I cant deny the pleasure from just strolling along without a backpack of equipment to contend with lol

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