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Canon EOS 5D Mark III

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Aperture f/8.0 ISO 400 Shutter 1/1250

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Jul, 2021

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Mitzy at 10 weeks old exploring the garden

Walking through the leaves in my orchard when I saw this butterfly drinking from a shrivelled pear.
Canon 60D Canon EF 100mm 2.8 USM
ISO 320, f8 1-2

Holly blue butterfly drinking or licking salts from the ground

Usually flock birds, hungry and searching for food in gardens

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Location

On my land in Cambridgeshire I could here the Buzzards calling so I walked into my spinney . I keep the setting on AV normally and as it was darkish in the spinney with leaves breaking on the Elm trees I was set up in case I disturbed deer. Suddenly the Buzzard was overhead checking me out, I had to switch to manual focus as the leaves between us were in the way. Due to the speed it appeared I didn’t have time to reduce the ISO and the photo was taken at 1/1600 at f8. I would have rather a slower speed and lower ISO but was just relieved to have this shot. I am totally self taught .

Time

12.05 pm

Lighting

Bright sunshine

Equipment

Canon 5D with canon Zoom EF 100-400mm, hand held

Inspiration

I was looking for interesting wildlife, in the spinney it is often possible to see squirrels and deer

Editing

Just adjusted the exposure, increasing it slightly as the sky was very bright, leaving the subject slightly underexposed. I did this in Adobe Elements 17.

In my camera bag

Canon macro EF 100mm 1:2.8, EOS60D, EOS 5D, polarising filters for when filming pondlife, tripod rarely.

Feedback

Set your camera to be able to quickly capture anything that appears. When photographing butterflies I will take a shot as soon as I see it for ID,, then creeping closer I will ensure my camera is set up to give the best results, ie enough depth of field and when close I always manually focus. If you are lucky to be able to get out early when the light is excellent and it’s still very cool insects tend to stay still on a plant warming up, then It’s possible to use a tripod .

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