Large White - natural light and close-up
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Matt Cole
Registered: Jun 13, 2009
Total Posts: 58
Country: United Kingdom


It's nice to take different sorts of images of a subject sometimes. I recently had the chance to photograph a nice, freshly emerged Large White butterfly and first took some natural light shots with my Sigma 150mm and then went in close with my MP-E 65 using flash.


Here's one of the natural light, Sigma 150 shots.


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and here's one of the close-ups. This was taken around 3x or 4x.


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It's interesting to see peoples' responses to these 2 types of shots. There are some forums where natural light shots are far more appreciated than close-ups as they're seen to be more pictorial and elegantly composed (and probably more commercially marketable). However, other forums and sites like Flickr seem to prefer the 'wow' factor of the close-ups.


All comments appreciated.

Matt


LordV
Registered: Jan 02, 2006
Total Posts: 25172
Country: United Kingdom

LIke both shots
#2 has more of a wow factor but more likely to hang #1 on a wall

Must admit I like to try and take both types of photos if possible with an amenable subject - ie a zoom series just to show some context as you have done.

Flickr is rather odd- I sometimes post crops from pics just to show the detail level and always labelled as crop from this picture but always get far more views/comments on the crop. Even had the Flickr/Getty gallery people choosing crops of pics in my gallery !

brian V.


orionmystery
Registered: Oct 01, 2008
Total Posts: 7429
Country: Malaysia

Great shots, like both too.


michael kilner
Registered: Feb 09, 2007
Total Posts: 8116
Country: United Kingdom

lovely shots


Matt Cole
Registered: Jun 13, 2009
Total Posts: 58
Country: United Kingdom

thanks for the comments.

Matt


Kenj8246
Registered: Feb 14, 2008
Total Posts: 11107
Country: United States

Nice job, Matt. Prefer first frame, but also agree it's nice to have the progression to 'in your face' closeups, as well.

Kenny


Adrian Jones
Registered: Sep 12, 2006
Total Posts: 1915
Country: United Kingdom

Lovely shots, like both but the first is a beauty.

Adrian


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