Painted Lady butterfly (not hairy moth) focused with ML

[Bill Eldridge]

Painted Lady, 18 images, Canon 100mm macro lens, automatic focusing with Magic Lantern



Painted Lady, 42 images, Canon FD 50mm reversed on 100mm, Magic Lantern



Painted Lady wings, 26 images, Canon FD 50mm reversed on 100mm, Magic Lantern

[Roy Patience]

The details are very good. Do you know why the eye looks different between the first and second image? The "hairs" are so sharp.

Roy

[Ozelot]

Hi Bill,

a difficult subject.
Implemented class.

Greeting

Michae

[Bill Eldridge]

Re: tonal and other differences between first and second image:

The first image uses Zerene Stacker's Dmap method, but the second image has so much overlapping that I had to use a Dmap base with extensive retouching from Pmax.

[rjlittlefield]

These came out well!

About the ID... This appears to be a Painted Lady butterfly, Vanessa cardui. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanessa_cardui has a good introductory article. Gobs more information can be found by searching on either the common or scientific names. Butterflies and moths are closely related; you can find info about the distinction by searching for "moths versus butterflies".

Do you know why the eye looks different between the first and second image? The "hairs" are so sharp.

The eyes of these butterflies are studded with long sharp hairs sticking straight out between the ommatidia (eye facets). The hairs themselves are kind of a medium brown color, but when the light hits them from the right angle they reflect it so as to appear bright. What appears to be a fringe of light hairs, around the left side of the eye in the second photo, is actually just the zone of hairs that were oriented the right way to reflect the illumination source into the camera. Moving the light around will change where the bright hairs show up.

--Rik

[Roy Patience]

Rik,

Thanks for the explanation.

Roy

[Bill Eldridge]

D'oh! Bonehead misidentification. Thanks.