John Robinson
06-23-2016, 05:43 PM
Small pearl Bordered Fritillaries Wyre Forest
One of those “red letter days”- whatever it means..Loads of garden stuff with a whole family of GSWoodpeckers and Nuthatches with young.Got some nice Spotted Flycatcher stuff at the nest and a load of limestone plants including 4 orchid species, and a dragonfly I,ve been after for longer than I care to mention. Loads of butterfly stuff.
I have the knack of finding the Small Pearl Bordered Fritts at roost, but this was something special. Only ever found singles. At about quarter to nine toniight I came a cross two of them disputing the right to sleep on the same juncus seed head. Never seen that before..
They calmed down after a brief fluttering session .and sat facing each other. The daylight(should I say darkness – exposure was one eighth of a second at 800 ISO at f10..No way I could hold that.
I ended up using a whole mix match of settings including flash fill, and had no tripod,
I was really chuffed at the results. Sometimes it a;ll comes together
A great day in all with enough to process with my slow old PSP for the next week or two !!
This is just one of many- actually got some of them wing flapping.,which I, can put on later if anyone is interested..
Nikon D7100
Sigma 50 mm macro
800 ISO
Fill flash( on camera)
EV-one stop
60th sec(flash sync)@f 7.1
Neat image.(hardly needed it)
PP in Paint Shop Pro - levels
Slight crop
Sharpen on resize for web.
Cheers
JohnR
One of those “red letter days”- whatever it means..Loads of garden stuff with a whole family of GSWoodpeckers and Nuthatches with young.Got some nice Spotted Flycatcher stuff at the nest and a load of limestone plants including 4 orchid species, and a dragonfly I,ve been after for longer than I care to mention. Loads of butterfly stuff.
I have the knack of finding the Small Pearl Bordered Fritts at roost, but this was something special. Only ever found singles. At about quarter to nine toniight I came a cross two of them disputing the right to sleep on the same juncus seed head. Never seen that before..
They calmed down after a brief fluttering session .and sat facing each other. The daylight(should I say darkness – exposure was one eighth of a second at 800 ISO at f10..No way I could hold that.
I ended up using a whole mix match of settings including flash fill, and had no tripod,
I was really chuffed at the results. Sometimes it a;ll comes together
A great day in all with enough to process with my slow old PSP for the next week or two !!
This is just one of many- actually got some of them wing flapping.,which I, can put on later if anyone is interested..
Nikon D7100
Sigma 50 mm macro
800 ISO
Fill flash( on camera)
EV-one stop
60th sec(flash sync)@f 7.1
Neat image.(hardly needed it)
PP in Paint Shop Pro - levels
Slight crop
Sharpen on resize for web.
Cheers
JohnR