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Published: 2005-12-04 22:14:52 +0000 UTC; Views: 633; Favourites: 11; Downloads: 28
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Description a Cabbage White Butterfly at the Botanical Gardens, Sydney.


thanks to Jez-Fly [link] for letting me run around with his wonderful camera and macro lens
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Comments: 34

Butterfly-Child-Risu [2007-02-21 01:51:41 +0000 UTC]

Beautiful!

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Rhodaur [2007-01-24 08:02:09 +0000 UTC]

Good capture. Though you really should resize this thing. To around 1024x768 or something.

From the picture itself. I would have focused on the eye of the butterfly But still, this does work. I like the colours and the way those background flowers make a "striking" feel to the pic. Composition is also good.

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cookie-fruit-decay [2005-12-07 03:53:13 +0000 UTC]

i love this macro lens <3

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Caged-Insanity In reply to cookie-fruit-decay [2005-12-07 05:59:04 +0000 UTC]

hehe, tis good, i shall get one of my own one day ^_^

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PheonixReborn [2005-12-06 00:16:15 +0000 UTC]

i dont know much about photography so i cant exactly come up with any critique im afraid. Out of curiosity though, what effect does a 'macro' lens have on the shot?

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Caged-Insanity In reply to PheonixReborn [2005-12-06 01:12:53 +0000 UTC]

well, if you were to put a normal camera without macro lens so close to the object (i.e. less than a few centimetres away) it woulld look blurred and yucky. think of the macro lens as a magnifying glass ... it's basically a single sided convex lens.

in other words ... it focuses close objects.

i don't know much about photography either, i just know it looks uber cool ^_^

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PheonixReborn In reply to Caged-Insanity [2005-12-08 00:53:33 +0000 UTC]

And by moving its focal point close, it shift the Depth of Field so that the background becomes uber-blurry like in the background of your photo
I get it now

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darthmarlan [2005-12-05 01:04:17 +0000 UTC]

Lovely colours, and I know how technical it can be to capture these critters, nicely done

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Caged-Insanity In reply to darthmarlan [2005-12-05 01:45:02 +0000 UTC]

thank you it was great fun ... 'tis the first time i encountered a macro lens and i love it

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darthmarlan In reply to Caged-Insanity [2005-12-05 01:47:37 +0000 UTC]

Welcome and yep, I need to get a proper macro lens, I do have the rings that can be mixed and matched to give different degrees of focus but they can be a little technical to use in terms of focusing

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Caged-Insanity In reply to darthmarlan [2005-12-05 01:52:10 +0000 UTC]

i guess a little physics training would help *i wish i did physics* ... one day i'll get a camera ... with zoom O___O

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darthmarlan In reply to Caged-Insanity [2005-12-05 02:08:30 +0000 UTC]

Hehee, I have a buddy that I went to school with that is a big Physics nut

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Caged-Insanity In reply to darthmarlan [2005-12-05 02:11:40 +0000 UTC]

does he also refract light? O___o

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darthmarlan In reply to Caged-Insanity [2005-12-05 02:17:02 +0000 UTC]

Haha, I am not sure, will have to check up on that

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awaha [2005-12-04 23:42:29 +0000 UTC]

The large images make it harder to look at on a screen and make the dpi lower , Is this little thing in the wild? Or in a butterfly house? Its a subject i wanna get when i get the opertunity.. Maybe a little more focus on the flower? a higher appature to allow a slightly better depth of feild..

Great selection, Great colours. I do like how the background flowers blur and provide random colourings.

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Caged-Insanity In reply to awaha [2005-12-05 01:40:35 +0000 UTC]

thankies , the butterfly was out in a large garden ... but it stayed on the same plant which was good ^_^

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awaha In reply to Caged-Insanity [2005-12-05 02:04:58 +0000 UTC]

Handy. Never see decent sized ones.. and they always fly rapidly around

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Caged-Insanity In reply to awaha [2005-12-05 02:13:57 +0000 UTC]

what you need to do is plant lots of pretty flowers that they like

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awaha In reply to Caged-Insanity [2005-12-05 02:24:43 +0000 UTC]

I tend to stick to Natives Get a few birds though, If it wasnt blistering hot I would setup a hide and capture some

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Caged-Insanity In reply to awaha [2005-12-05 02:40:57 +0000 UTC]

*nods* i stay inside on hot days ... and read ... ^_^

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awaha In reply to Caged-Insanity [2005-12-05 06:40:23 +0000 UTC]

And dont come on MSN . I tend not to read much now a days. Gives me headaches to read from paper

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Caged-Insanity In reply to awaha [2005-12-05 10:02:17 +0000 UTC]

how did you guess ... i tend to get hounded by people on MSN so i hide from it every now and then ... you can still catch me online - depends how lucky tou are

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awaha In reply to Caged-Insanity [2005-12-05 10:43:13 +0000 UTC]

well.. U added me and I havent seen U online yet. And Ur a friend of Lexie so I wanted to say hi

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Caged-Insanity In reply to awaha [2005-12-05 10:44:12 +0000 UTC]

i added you? ... i thought you added me

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awaha In reply to Caged-Insanity [2005-12-05 12:30:56 +0000 UTC]

True, I ment you accepted my invitation.

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Caged-Insanity In reply to awaha [2005-12-05 12:38:26 +0000 UTC]

lovely to talk to you dear

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awaha In reply to Caged-Insanity [2005-12-05 13:50:52 +0000 UTC]

I have a habbit of walking off without telling ppl Sorry

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Caged-Insanity In reply to awaha [2005-12-05 21:41:11 +0000 UTC]

that's cool ^_^ i don't mind ...

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awaha In reply to Caged-Insanity [2005-12-06 01:36:43 +0000 UTC]

Apperently.. I am so "Cute and sweet" .... Apperently ne way

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Caged-Insanity In reply to awaha [2005-12-06 01:38:59 +0000 UTC]

O___o ...

hehehe ... cute and sweet, yep that sounds like you

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awaha In reply to Caged-Insanity [2005-12-06 06:42:00 +0000 UTC]

not really.. I just have someone special to look after and protect and care for

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Caged-Insanity In reply to awaha [2005-12-06 09:39:58 +0000 UTC]

yes and they love you back ... *sniff* ... i'm happy for you.

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awaha In reply to Caged-Insanity [2005-12-06 10:39:07 +0000 UTC]

I know, Its great Now i get to play this nice little game called waiting, Oh well, Worth it for the end result .... Isnt this a great way to spam your comments?

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Caged-Insanity In reply to awaha [2005-12-06 11:56:00 +0000 UTC]

indeed it is.

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