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Tiny Gray Butterfly (Gray Hairstreak?)
Sep 17, 2018 04:24:10 #
Finding few birds during my photobirding this afternoon, a did catch a quick flash of a gray butterfly from the corner of my eye. I quickly zoomed in to 500 mm and 1/2500 sec. at f/7.1 with my Nikon 200-500 and snapped off a couple of images of this very small creature (13-17 mm long). Because of the bright sun in my eyes, I really couldn't tell what I had until I loaded the images in my computer and opened them in Lightroom. The image was very contrasty and much larger than the attached crop of the full frame, but I was pleasantly surprised with what I saw when I lowered contrast and balanced the light in Lightroom. My research indicates this is a Gray Hairstreak, a species native to Orange County, CA. Hope you like it. Download the attached original for best viewing. The image is at least 3 times the size of the real thing.
Sep 17, 2018 12:22:36 #
Nice.Looks right for Gray Hairstreak.
I don't think I've ever seen one with it's wings open.
Sep 17, 2018 13:04:11 #
Rick:
Thanks for looking and for confirming my research. I’m mostly a birder, so I don’t really know the butterflies and moths. Thanks to the internet, I was able to make a good guess. I’m not sure that this specimen was really lit on the leaf. It was flitting quickly from plant to plant so I set a fast shutter speed to freeze whatever I was able to shoot and used a medium fl-stop for a little more DoF. I got three shots, two of which were pretty sharp, but all three were essentially “in flight”. Just lucky to get the wings open. Thanks again and have a nice day.
Thanks for looking and for confirming my research. I’m mostly a birder, so I don’t really know the butterflies and moths. Thanks to the internet, I was able to make a good guess. I’m not sure that this specimen was really lit on the leaf. It was flitting quickly from plant to plant so I set a fast shutter speed to freeze whatever I was able to shoot and used a medium fl-stop for a little more DoF. I got three shots, two of which were pretty sharp, but all three were essentially “in flight”. Just lucky to get the wings open. Thanks again and have a nice day.
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Sep 17, 2018 19:16:51 #
jak86094 wrote:
Finding few birds during my photobirding this afte... (show quote)
Very nice, jak86094
Sep 17, 2018 21:16:32 #
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