I took the cage outside to release the five that were ready. I wasn't planning to shoot them on my hand, and indeed the first images I took were of butterflies in the cage, on the top of the cage, and opn the wooden decking on which the cage was resting. When I glanced up and saw the blue sky and puffy clouds, I decided to try for an image against the background of the sky.
I was running out of time, so I switched the butterfly I was in the process of releasing from my right hand to my left, so I could raise it up against theat lovely sky. I didn't expect to get much, as I had to hold the camera and shoot it with one hand, and I am no longer very steady shooting that way, and also because the butterfly would be against a much brighter background. I hoped for the best and made a couple of snaps, one of which came out better than I had expected, and another of which was all motion blur (image #3). I have a number of other images against different backgrounds and illustrating the cage, the empty chrysalises, and the mess the butterflies leave behind when they make their exits, but I thought the sky image was more interesting, more unusual, and more pleasing to the eye. All in all, it was a fairly successful evening. Dan Matyola *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery <https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery>* On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 2:03 PM ann sanfedele <ann...@nyc.rr.com> wrote: > Got it -- I understood about #3 and like less hand and more butterfly > -- hence I chose #2... didn't really think about it being jsut a crop or > not > > ann > -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
