Post by nomad on Apr 3, 2016 7:36:00 GMT
Coming from Britain, have you seen all of those wonderful butterfly images on the web where the subject is doing nothing, just resting on top of a flower. It has no interest in the flower its just sitting there, it looks spaced out, perfectly still for that sharp image. The Brits love this type of image of the adult insect doing nothing. Just the butterfly and plain background. Nothing else is happening, the wings are closed, but they are in Vogue big time adorning calendars and website alike the pretty image is all here.
I am not talking about roosting blues here, I have many a pretty picture of these nor Hairstreaks that our American friends sometimes like to call Elfins that have hopped off a flower to have a rest.
So how do many get these pictures that include rare aberrations in a perfect setting. Well, before I mentioned how it is done, I must state here that I used none of these techniques. I just do not want a pretty picture that much. So how do they do it. Well shock horror, they use a butterfly net, capture the bug and place it in a small box or other such holder then pop it in a cold box that their sandwiches are usually kept in. The docile insect is then placed wherever you want get the most gorgeous picture. There is never a blur at all in the background, some have said that photoshop comes in its own here, although a few who know these tricks and their craft well well deny this, the non moving insect the thing. The butterfly is unharmed but probably not the warmest it has ever been.
Thus we have butterfly photographers in the UK roaming such places as Nature Reserves with nets and now we know why people here are reported catching butterflies with nets in forbidden places and the photographers probably make up 97 per cent of those sightings.
I am not talking about roosting blues here, I have many a pretty picture of these nor Hairstreaks that our American friends sometimes like to call Elfins that have hopped off a flower to have a rest.
So how do many get these pictures that include rare aberrations in a perfect setting. Well, before I mentioned how it is done, I must state here that I used none of these techniques. I just do not want a pretty picture that much. So how do they do it. Well shock horror, they use a butterfly net, capture the bug and place it in a small box or other such holder then pop it in a cold box that their sandwiches are usually kept in. The docile insect is then placed wherever you want get the most gorgeous picture. There is never a blur at all in the background, some have said that photoshop comes in its own here, although a few who know these tricks and their craft well well deny this, the non moving insect the thing. The butterfly is unharmed but probably not the warmest it has ever been.
Thus we have butterfly photographers in the UK roaming such places as Nature Reserves with nets and now we know why people here are reported catching butterflies with nets in forbidden places and the photographers probably make up 97 per cent of those sightings.
