Party Crasher + Repost

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Description

On my routine garden patrol this morning I spotted this small group of morning glories. I was set up for a stack and had the focus magnifier on another part of the scene when the flowers shook pretty violently. I got out of the magnified view and was delighted to see this skipper dropping in for breakfast. I fired off one shot and off he went. I was lucky it just happened to be in the focal plane I was working at the time. He did it once more but he was a little OOF and I couldn’t adjust before he left for good. >=))>

Specific Feedback

I’m pretty pleased with the focus on the skipper even though it’s not quite as sharp on the eye as I would like. Keeper?

Technical Details

Sony A7rIII
Sony FE 70-200 f2.8 GM-II @ 180mm
ISO 400, 1/640 @ f5.6


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2 Likes

Bill, beautiful flowers and a great unexpected visitor, aall in perfect focus (as always)
That light blob in the upper left is a minor distraction, for me
I didn’t know morning glories came in this soft pink… the ones invading our gardens and causing Jim such grief are only white or purple.

Sandy: Good eye. I got lazy. Here’s a correction.

Now it’s Perfect!

Bill, the updated image is wonderful…very nice indeed… :cowboy_hat_face:

Very good, Bill. Glad you were using fairly good depth of field even though you intended to stack as it kept the skipper and a good portion of the flowers in nice focus. A nice composition as well.

Wonderful!!! Color, sharpness, composition – all top notch! That skipper saw its chance and went for it!! What would you think about a subtle blur on the buds on the left? A small thing and maybe just my OCD coming out.

Bill, I don’t know how I missed seeing this one. What a beauty. I love the group of flowers, the color is beautiful. The Skipper makes for a nice party crasher, I wouldn’t mind that at all. Nicely done.