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Description
Painted Ladies are common but not abundant visitors to my butterfly patch. They’re easy to photograph when they’re perching, but a lot more difficult in flight. The problem is they stay buried in the vegetation, and it’s difficult to differentiate the animal from the background. Once in a while you get a good one.
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OM Systems OM-1 Mark II, Post-processing in Affinity
1/5000, F9, ISO 2500, 150mm, no flash
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Russ: Amen to your comment about getting them on a perch so kudos to you for getting a flight shot. Great focus on the head and antennae especially and it’s also cool that the proboscis is extended a little. The lantana is a great BG as well as a good feeding station. Really well done. >=))>
Nice shot Russell, fun when you catch them on the wing and so in focus. Did you shoot continuous? You could separate the background as mask and soften it with the sliders decreasing texture and clarity making it a bit darker as well. Then see if the Lady pops a little.
Hi Stephen, thanks for your comment. Yes, this was sequential shooting. Butterflies and dragonflies in flight are challenging because they are fast and erratic. I need to use a shutter speed of 1/5000 and a frame rate of 126 FPS. Dragonflies are especially difficult because they fly like rockets. Sometimes I come home after a one-hour shooting session with more than 2,000 frames in the camera.
