Creative photography

[bdery]

Again this year, I have visited a greenhouse where exotic butterflies live for a time. A great opportunity to take photographs of the kind we rarely can shoot in Quebec city. Here is the gallery:

http://s108.photobucket.com/albums/n13/bdery/2010/2010-03-20%20Butterflies/

The images were shot with a 50 mm macro, a 100-300 consumer zoom (both Pentax), and a 17-70 Sigma lens. I must confess I was surprised by the performance of the 100-300 mm lens, I did not expect it to fare so well for this kind of photography. The macro of course delivered the best results.

Also note that butterflies seem to like Pentax cameras

Comments are always welcome.

[admin]

You got some fabulous shots. There are so many standouts but I particularly like 5 & 8, 9, 18 & 19. Glad the butterflies were so camera-friendly, especially #10.

Nice work!

[Mike54]

Nice stuff there Bernard. I especially like those close ups. I never seem to be able to get close enough to butterflies when I'm out shooting macro, they're just too skittish. Maybe I need to get to the butterfly house  .

Mike

[bdery]

Thanks for the comments guy. Butterflies do seem to favour Pentax, they kept landing on our cameras

Mike, these butterflies were really not worried by us. Maybe the fact that there was no wind helped.  It was also very humid. I mostly worked with the 50 macro, getting really close. For some of those (the ones shot from the side, mainly) the 300 mm lens helped a lot. The 17-70 "standard" lens was used for a little bit of everything, it's no macro but it's close focusing. This arsenal got all bases covered for me during that outing. Maybe you could try a long tele if your butterflies scare easily.