The male was in flight, and worrying the female who wasn't having any of it.
Shot today at 1/1250 f8 iso1600 with Sony A700, 70-210 'beercan'. Simple noise reduction on raw image with Photoshop, colour 25% luminance 30% masking 8%
Freezing the action
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Re: Freezing the action
Amazing shot Mike!
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Very neat shot, tried to get similar shots a lot, but with no results.
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Re: Freezing the action
Thanks both. I haven't done much with high iso yet so it's a bit of a learning curve to see just what I can get away with.
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Very impressive!
With a bit of patience and luck you could probably get some ups shots of heaths, graylings, hairstreaks (green, white-letter and black) and clouded yellows for this site!
We've got to work on those 'no image available' signs.
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With a bit of patience and luck you could probably get some ups shots of heaths, graylings, hairstreaks (green, white-letter and black) and clouded yellows for this site!
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Re: Freezing the action
And apologies to those of you that have sent me pics to fill in some of the gaps - I'll get to it now ![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_smile.gif)
Cheers,
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Re: Freezing the action
I did try to get a brimstone male upper earlier in the year but it wasn't very good. I got lucky with this one because I was able to focus on the female who was at rest. As for black and white letter hairstreaks ANY shots of those would be a bonus. I made a concerted effort to track down WLH this year but the elms have been dropping like flies. ![Sad :(](./images/smilies/icon_sad.gif)
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