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Monarch

Gallery: Macro & Close-upPosted August 16, 201177 views3 comments

This evening I felt the desire to mix things up - so instead of kayaking to a local tern colony I headed to a wildflower preserve nearby that I have neglected to visit all summer. There were plenty of butterflies, birds and flowers to shoot so I was like a kid in a candy store.

Nikon D300s 300 f4 + 1.7X TC HH
f/9
1/800s
ISO 640
-.33 EC

Full Frame, sharpened using Smart Sharpen in CS5 on 27" iMac

- Luke

Comments

3 comments

Comment posted by Gary Yeoh on August 17, 2011 at 12:37 AM

Luke:
Nice capture of the monarch. I have seen you get consistently sharp images hand holding this long non VR lens.. many kudos

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Comment posted by Barbara Graham on August 17, 2011 at 10:54 AM

Luke, this is really nice, wonderful that it's full frame, great composition. Very sharp, and besides the butterfly I really like both the foreground and the blurry background.

Registered on July 27, 2010, 1310 Posts, 5035 Comments

Comment posted by Varina Patel on August 17, 2011 at 5:45 PM

The narrow DOF gives us a really nice feeling of depth - and the flowers provide a sense of place. This is really nice, Luke!

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