Commas on the 500mm

ChrisA · 24 Sep 2016

Taken today some comma butterflies on my 500mm - did not have a macro lens on me

But think they may just count as closeup - about as close as the lens could focus...

Also took a wee video of them.

RacingSnake · 24 Sep 2016

Are your pictures taken from still frames of the video? (quite like the video).
The video looks sharper than the images - and for the 500, I'd have expected them to be pin-sharp :|

ChrisA · 25 Sep 2016

The stills are stills - taken from the same position the camera was in for the video.

They look tack sharp to me on my screen on the butterfly. Not overly sure why you think they aren't.

RacingSnake · 25 Sep 2016

hmmm, are you looking at the ones you've uploaded here? or the originals on your computer? maybe they've suffered in the upload to the site here?

john.margetts · 25 Sep 2016

They look sharp to me, as well.

ChrisA · 25 Sep 2016

RacingSnake said:
hmmm, are you looking at the ones you've uploaded here? or the originals on your computer? maybe they've suffered in the upload to the site here?

They look sharp here to me. There's a little loss due to compression I suppose from the originals. They are wide apertures - so only limited DOF on the butterfly.

RacingSnake · 25 Sep 2016

ChrisA said:
They look sharp here to me.

Fair enough, if you're happy with them

just doesn't feel like it has definition - whereas the video does

corpy · 25 Sep 2016

Here's my 500mm crop of a Comma .

The Comma Butterfly ! by Ian Richard Jones, on Flickr

BillN_33 · 25 Sep 2016

My view would be that the colours are overdone and if you have applied noise reduction it has reduced any detail in the Butterfly, (if there was any there in the first place)

It looks like that you have sharpened what was a noisy image

I can see way they are not regarded as sharpe, they are not soft but harsh

ChrisA · 25 Sep 2016

Thanks for the feedback - will have to look at my processing. Was attempting a play with Nik Color Effex for first time. Should not have much noise as only 400 iso.

The Weasel · 25 Sep 2016

I like the idea Chris, and I can see where Gavin is coming from re the sharpness ( which I don't doubt is there ) but I think whatever you have done in Nik Colour Effex has completely "Blocked" the colours, wiping out most of the fine detail.

Maybe post the same shots without the Nik adjustments.