Cabbage White

[Joseph Przybyla]

I captured this image at Circle B Bar Reserve in Polk County, Florida. I identified this butterfly as a Cabbage White but am open to be corrected if not so. Comments and critique welcomed and appreciated. Thank you for viewing.

Nikon D500
Nikon 80-400mm F/4.5-5.6 VRII AF-S ED image captured at 400mm
1/2000 F/5.6 Matrix Metering EV -1/3 ISO 900 AWB
Post processed in Lightroom Classic CC and Photoshop CC 201
Cropped for composition and presentation

[Steve Maxson]

Beautiful light, very good overall sharpness, good detail in the whites, and your subject stands out well against the darker background! Very nicely done!

[Jonathan Ashton]

Wow that's a beauty love the lighting, we have similar butterflies here often referred to as cabbage white but when I look them up on a formal butterfly recognition site (I refer to UK now) I find that cabbage white is an erroneous name. It has just occurred to me this may be because you have the cabbage white over there! Either way we have a large white and a small white, a black veined white, a green veined white (AKA small white) and a wood white, yours doesn't look like any of them, ours have larger black spots or areas, not just dots.
I like the image as presented it really looks good, the subject would make me tempted however to play in the raw converter to produce different versions. If or before you do I would make a note of the optimised raw settings you had for this image so you could always go back to them.
You may want to try versions with differing amounts of clarity selectively applied also some light use of the Dehaze brush could prove useful - let me know if you do I would be curious to see the results... but as I said I think this image is excellent.

[Krishna Prasad kotti]

Amazing Shot. I love the light. I won't change a thing.

Thanks for sharing.