Red Admiral Butterfly

georgedingwall · Post by **georgedingwall** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 1:02 pm

Hi all,

Here's a couple of stacked shots of a Red Admiral Butterfly.

The Eye image is a separate stack rather than just a crop from the wider shot.

I'm still playing about with the "pose", so I hope to find an intersting angle or two.

D200 with 105mm Nikon Macro Lens + 1 set of extension tubes.
1/250 sec F8
Home made focussing rail
Flash
Frames stacked in Helicon Focus.
Finished in Photoshop CS2.

D200 with 50mm EL Nikkor enlarger lens inverted.
Bellows + 2 sets of extension tubes.
1/250 sec F5.6
Home made focussing rail
Flash
Frames stacked in Helicon Focus.
Finished in Photoshop CS2.

Bye for now.

MacroLuv · Post by **MacroLuv** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 1:12 pm

Hairy eyes???

georgedingwall · Post by **georgedingwall** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 1:41 pm

Hi there,

MacroLuv wrote:Hairy eyes???

I sometimes wake up in the morning feeling like I have Hairy Eyes" too.

Bye for now.

PeglegOS · Post by **PeglegOS** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 1:43 pm

When I was a drinking man, I sometimes woke up with what felt like a hairy tongue....

MacroLuv · Post by **MacroLuv** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 2:18 pm

Sometimes I have same feeling and then I rub my eyes to convince myself that it is not true.

MacroLuv · Post by **MacroLuv** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 2:28 pm

PeglegOS wrote:When I was a drinking man, I sometimes woke up with what felt like a hairy tongue....

If I see bottom of the glass I'm not aware of my tongue existance.

beetleman · Post by **beetleman** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 2:31 pm

These are incredible stacks George. Razor sharp and lots of cool things to look at. It must be an old butterfly with hair on his eyes...like me but I have less hair on my head and more coming out of my ears as I get older

MacroLuv · Post by **MacroLuv** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 2:48 pm

beetleman wrote:... It must be an old butterfly with hair on his eyes...like me but I have less hair on my head and more coming out of my ears as I get older

I got bushy and greyish eyebrows with ages but this butterflay is really geezer!

DaveW · Post by **DaveW** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 3:46 am

George

The reversed enlarger lens you are now using seems to work very well.

DaveW

Ken Ramos · Post by **Ken Ramos** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 3:51 am

A great set of images George! I wonder how the butterflies can see through all that hair on their eye balls? Thanks George!