Orange Tip Photo | TrekEarth

Photographer’s Note

This is my second butterfly shot,the first which I posted on TL,I've since found out may be a moth!
This I photographed in our garden this morning.
It is an Orange Tip butterfly (Anthocaris cardamines)an attractive spring butterfly growing to between 35 to 45mm.It is widespread in Southern England and Ireland.Its range extends over Western Europe to China and Japan.One of the first Spring butterflies,seen flying close to the ground in gardens,lanes and forest paths.
Photo cropped and used USM at 15% in PS
ISO 160
Exposure time1/450s

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carper (64948) 2004-05-11 11:51

Good one Andy,
I know how differcult it could be to capture, some butterflys. Sometimes I must running after it, for a good position for taken a photo. The dof is not super, the colours are nice, and the composition, well I said it before, is good, good job

paroy (316) 2004-05-12 21:18

Excellente prise, très bons détails et superbes couleurs. l'aile gauche n'est pas tout à fait nette mais c'est bien.

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Georges (11183) 2004-05-15 11:17

Voila une spece qui me plait beaucoup difficile ce type de cliché car les angle les meilleur sont difficile a faire a cause du sujet qui part a la moindre alerte.
Bonne composition qui a de riches détails trés interessant.
Bravo

RobBrown (1789) 2004-05-25 3:25

Nice one a difficult shot to obtain as they never settle for long and vanish at the slightest shadow moving.
Left wing slight soft in focus, probable because you are focused on the flat wing furthest from you. You need to focus on the white area just below orange area this is to expose the whites corectly otherwise they burn out loosing all the details.
very early in the morning seems the best time when they are still warming up.

Burnham (2426) 2004-06-02 7:23

Not that all your shots after this one aren't great, but it just caught my attention because yesterday when I was out taking my very first macros with Bente (milloup) we saw these orange tipped butterflies, and she told me how she had tried to photograph them for so long, but never succeded, then I told her I had seen one on TE, I just didn't remeber who had shot it - you I guess :o). You did very well and it's a beautiful specimen. Thanks for sharing.