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Three in one

Gallery: Macro & Close-upPosted October 22, 201796 views5 comments

I captured this queen butterfly gathering nectar from a pride of Barbados Blossom. Nearby was a monarch caterpillar and three milk weed bugs. They were assembled for a group shot!
Canon 7 Dii
Canon 100 400 L-series
1/1200
iso 1000
F8
feedback is always appreciated. Ry

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5 comments

Comment posted by Mark Seaver on October 22, 2017 at 1:09 PM

You've got quite a collection of insects here, Ry. The brightness and creamy background make for a fine artistic look. More dof would be nice so that the milkweed bugs were sharp(er), which looks possible given your shutter speed. Getting rid of that stick running up the middle would be nice, but that would mean chasing away the Queen.

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Comment posted by Craig Moreau on October 23, 2017 at 2:27 PM

Ry, I like the idea of the collection of plants and bugs, but honestly, there's too much happening here for me to know what to look at. Perhaps moving the camera to the right and down just a bit would have cleaned this up a bit by uncovering the caterpillar and placing the butterfly more in between the green buds that the milkweed bugs are on.

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Comment posted by Lucy VanSwearingen on October 24, 2017 at 1:53 AM

Lots of action here. You might want to simplify this quite a bit. I'll show you what I mean, when we meet.

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Comment posted by Balan Vinod on October 24, 2017 at 6:56 AM

Not easy to get a bunch of them in one frame. I like this.

Balan Vinod

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Comment posted by Stephanie Murphy on November 4, 2017 at 7:38 PM

The vibrant pastels of the delicate flowers hosting the collection of tiny critters creates a thoroughly cheerful mood.

Registered on October 18, 2017, 24 Posts, 56 Comments