Butterfly Wing

[gnagel]

I broke out the Nikon 200 f/4 Micro lens along with my D850 for this extreme close-up of a butterfly wing:

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Glenn

 

[Palouse]

Looks like hand painted canvas! Bravo!

 

[Mike Buckley]

I like the cloth-like texture!

Did you do focus stacking?

 

[gnagel]

Looks like hand painted canvas! Bravo!

Thanks Nick

I like the cloth-like texture!

Did you do focus stacking?

Thank Mike...I did focus stack this one. Unfortunately, I couldn't use the Focus Shift feature on the D850 for this one. The camera was having trouble focusing at all with the 200 f4 attached to the extension tube...so I ended up focusing in different parts of the frame manually and then stacking them in Photoshop.

Glenn

 

[Mike Buckley]

I ended up focusing in different parts of the frame manually

Very impressive! I hope I never feel compelled to try doing that, as I fear I won't be successful.

 

[Pa]

Well done, Glenn. Nice diagonal composition.

 

[gnagel]

Very impressive! I hope I never feel compelled to try doing that, as I fear I won't be successful.

I don’t like that method as there is a greater chance of introducing camera shake. I try to minimize the risk by using a cable release and carefully turn the focusing ring on the lens. It seemed to work for this, but the butterfly was relatively flat and square to the lens.

Glenn

 

[gnagel]

Well done, Glenn. Nice diagonal composition.

Thanks Jim…I plan to do a few more compositions over the next couple of days. The biggest challenge is that the wing doesn’t offer a lot of space to be creative.

Glenn

 

[Phil K]

It's beautiful

 

[Commodorefirst]

Wonderful.

 

[nuclearjock]

Did you do focus stacking?

Focus shift doesn't work with d (screw type) lenses. I wish it did, I have the same beautiful lens.

 

[gnagel]

It's beautiful

Thank you Phil

Wonderful.

Thanks Wade

Focus shift doesn't work with d (screw type) lenses. I wish it did, I have the same beautiful lens.

Thank you, Rick...I didn't realize that focus shift didn't work with this lens. I knew it wasn't working for me, but thought it was because the autofocus wasn't able to acquire focus in this situation. That's helpful information.

Glenn