Variegated Fritillary

salden · Post by **salden** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 12:27 pm

At least I believe this is a Variegated Fritillary.

lauriek · Post by **lauriek** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 4:15 pm

Really nice shot, has an almost film like feel about it, I assume it is digital?

salden · Post by **salden** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 4:17 pm

Yes, this is digital.

Canon 1Ds
Canon 100mm Macro 2.8 with Kenko extension tube

Argusray · Post by **Argusray** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 12:43 am

Very nice shot. With subjects like this, do you usually shoot with available light alone or do you use a strobe?

Argusray

salden · Post by **salden** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 3:07 am

This was taken in natural light during the hottest part of the day. You can see where the sun hitting on the flowers and the light on the leaves at the front of the image.

Techs:

Canon 1Ds
Canon 100mm Macro 2.8
Kenko extension tubes
1/200 sec @ F7.1
Manual Exposure
Handheld
ISO 100

Ken Ramos · Post by **Ken Ramos** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 5:56 pm

This is a nice shot, I like it

but those or that bunch of leaves down in the lower left corner, they sort of look okay but then kind'a distracting, don't cha' think?

salden · Post by **salden** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 6:07 pm

Ken Ramos wrote:This is a nice shot, I like it but those or that bunch of leaves down in the lower left corner, they sort of look okay but then kind'a distracting, don't cha' think?

Yes, the leaves are distracting, but I could not crop them out or move around for a better angle on the butterfly and get him head on. Some times you have to work around things

Ken Ramos · Post by **Ken Ramos** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 6:10 pm

Yeah, suppose so. Been there, done that myself.

rjlittlefield · Post by **rjlittlefield** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 8:35 pm

Nice angle and lighting .

ID is Painted Lady, Vanessa cardui. The Variegated Fritillary Euptoieta claudia looks somewhat similar, but a lot of the details are different, see for example this NABA page.

Those lower left leaves might be less distracting if they were blurred out in Photoshop. But I never know until I try it.

--Rik

salden · Post by **salden** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 3:12 am

Thanks Rik, I should have know it was a painted lady, I photographed enough of them last year.

I will attempt a blur in PS to see what happens. Help your self. I do not care if someone "rearranges" my images to try out something.

rjlittlefield · Post by **rjlittlefield** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 12:11 pm

salden wrote:Help your self. I do not care if someone "rearranges" my images to try out something.

Here's what I was thinking of. It's a Gaussian blur, 1.5 pixels, masked to apply only to the background and the troublesome leaves. Don't know how much it helps -- I've looked at the image too long at this point.

--Rik