Butterfly Photography
Jul 31, 2017 12:03:15 #
This time of year I enjoy photographing butterflies attracted to flowers in my wife's garden. Attached is a photograph of a Gulf Fritillary I photographed yesterday. I would appreciate comments on how to improve this sort of photo., both in the shooting phase and the post shooting editing phase. Thanks in advance for your suggestions
Jul 31, 2017 13:59:32 #
The butterfly seems a little over-saturated and maybe a little background blur would have helped (different f/stop). Background highlights are blown out.There was no exif data for me to look at. Overall, not bad.
Aug 1, 2017 06:48:11 #
Aug 1, 2017 08:19:57 #
more bokeh needed to bring focused to the butterfly, but nice non the less
Aug 1, 2017 09:04:44 #
zooljwt wrote:
This time of year I enjoy photographing butterflies attracted to flowers in my wife's garden. Attached is a photograph of a Gulf Fritillary I photographed yesterday. I would appreciate comments on how to improve this sort of photo., both in the shooting phase and the post shooting editing phase. Thanks in advance for your suggestions
Very nice and sometimes very difficult to get lighting perfect especially it taken midday on a very sunny day. Your camera light monitor adjusted to the Fritillary when you focus on it, which made the white flowers in the background overexposed--better that way than the reverse, but I would try in post processing to lower the exposure a little an see if that would help. I'm by no means an expert on post processing, but that has sometimes bailed me out, but your lighting is good on the butterfly, which is the primary concern. btw I really love the Gulf Fritillaries, and have planted passion flowers, the host plant for their caterpillars, in the slim chance that one would make it up this far. One of my guide books shows them in the lower southeastern part of Virginia but think I'm a little to far northwest! Keep the butterflies images coming and take care! Corky
Aug 1, 2017 09:15:17 #
Nice sharp image of the butterfly and beautiful color. Shooting under tough light conditions and maybe pp will tone down background but nice shot anyway. /George
Aug 1, 2017 11:58:14 #
A nice photo but I agree with another poster that is a bit over saturated. If you will check out the macro section of the forum you will find numerous tips and photographs of what others use for their photographs of insects and butterflies. It helped me a lot when I first started out taking macro photos. Good luck and please continue submitting photos. It does take a lot of practice, practice and more practice.
Dennis
Dennis
Aug 2, 2017 02:08:13 #
Well, the flowers in the back are blown out. Wonder how it would look if you backed up a little. Beautiful butterfly, zooljwt!
Aug 2, 2017 11:21:58 #
A week or so ago I posted a photo. of a Gulf Fritillary which I took in my wife's flower garden. I asked for and received several helpful suggestions. Thanks.
I tried again with the same species of butterfly but backed off on the saturation and tried to get a less cluttered and less blown out background. The result is attached. Again, I ask for your evaluations and suggestions.
I tried again with the same species of butterfly but backed off on the saturation and tried to get a less cluttered and less blown out background. The result is attached. Again, I ask for your evaluations and suggestions.
Aug 2, 2017 11:24:48 #
Aug 2, 2017 11:37:35 #
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