yes yes, more butterflies

[doenoe]

Went to Amsterdam zoo again and since it was sh!tty weather, i just walked on to the butterfly garden. I had some fun with the cactus trigger again. This time i tried to pay more attention to the background, so they would look less busy.
I think it worked out pretty good :mrgreen:
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#8

Thanks for looking
Greetz Daan

 

[ATXshots]

Beautiful...as always.

 

[TwoRails]

Yes, more butterflies, and yes, more fantastic shots!! I love 'em!!

 

[digimania]

Excellent series Daan. That #7 shot of the Glass Wing is top of the heap. Sharp and with an intersting bg.
Richard

 

[Kondro86]

ohh la la.

 

[Kondro86]

how do you achieve such a black background?

 

[doenoe]

Thanks for the replies everyone
About the background: I shoot at F13 with a shutterspeed of 1/200. Normally i would get a very very very dark picture. So i use a flash. With using the flash you light the subject, but everything behind it gets dark, because there just isnt enough light. And if you make sure there isnt anything like a leave of twig behind the butterfly, you get a very clean, dark background. In photoshop you just slide some sliders and voila, black background

 

[Kondro86]

Thanks!! great pic again

 

[mikemicki]

wow. beautiful work.

 

[squeek2334]

Really Nice pics

 

[doenoe]

thanks for the nice comments