Butterflies in flight

[carlos58]

Hello everyone
some shot of last week of butterflies in flight
http://www.pbase.com/carlogalliani/insects_in_flight

Cleopatra - Gonepteryx cleopatra

Scarce Swallowtail - Iphiclides podalirius

Common Yellow Swallowtail- Papilio machaon

 

[turbotoes]

Nice bunch Carlo, I've been trying some of these myself, but we are very short of butterflies because the weather has been so bad :shake:

 

[Solo man]

Nice set Carlo.... I especially like 1 and 4.

 

[dibbly dobbler]

These are excellent Carlo

What focal length do you shoot at again ?

 

[Peter_Hartland]

all excellent but the last one is stunning

 

[Joeturner11]

Great set love the last image!

 

[milster]

Superb again Carlos

 

[SarahLee]

Really can't add much to what's already been said.
Beautiful

I think #1 is my pick of the bunch. I like the framing and the foreground Lavender gives it some context.

 

[markleddra]

Beautiful captures.....

 

[v8moneypit]

Just love the first and last, but all of them are lovely.

I have no idea how you achieve these results, so do you mind me asking what shutter speed you have to use to freeze the action?

 

[MoysieWRX]

Excellent photos, well done

My favorite i think has to be #2

 

[TimmyG]

Wonderful series! what's the technique?

 

[clicktheshutter]

Wow really like them

 

[dinners]

Fantastic stuff

I was trying to think about the settings you must have used wondering if it was possible with 'regular' kit and looking at the exif it seems it would be.

D300 / 180mm (35mm equivalent 270mm) f5.6 / 1/6000 / ISO 400

 

[mattd85]

Every time I try and find other words to describe your photography but I always end up with the same ones:

Inspiring
Sensational
Amazing
Perfect
Stunning
Beautiful

And last but not least my fav

HOW????

Matt

 

[pingu666]

makes me feel bad about my efforts

 

[Pinkbikerbabe]

Really brilliant efforts love them. And Paul don't feel bad about your pics I have seen some off them and they are great as well.

 

[IanClark]

Well MattD kinda summed up all the words in my mind too.

Carlo, these are quite simply OUTSTANDING!. Just.. WOW!

 

[SKM]

Excellent shots

Stan

 

[carlos58]

Thanks everyone for comments
I used D300 and 70/180 macro nikon
for exif data in my gallery under every shot there are the complete exifdata for every shot

 

[Just Dave]

Fab Carlo

 

[Passero]

Wonderful shots! I'm just speechless...

 

[carlos58]

thanks everyone for last comments