I am back.
I had invasive eye surgery on Tuesday and on Saturday went with my photo club to Brookside Gardens to take photos of the many butterflies. Brookside has a Wings of Fancy exhibit each year and this was my first visit there. This was a private, planned club outing and the chief advantage was that we were allowed to have tripods. When the general public visits, no tripods.
Naturally, I forgot my tripod. All the below are handheld. I'm not proud. I'm less proud to say that I didn't experiment as much as I should - I mostly set my aperture on 4.0 (for the short DOF) and then either let the camera choose the speed (mostly 1/13, 1/15, 1/20) which made for a lot of fuzzy fotos. A few times I manually set the shutter speed to 1/125 which made for less fuzzy fotos but a little darker. Like a dunce I should have unleashed the power of the 7D - it has much better high ISO performance.
I took about 400 photos, of which I felt 60 were not embarrassing. I put 20 on flickr, and here below enjoy five of them!
I haven't visited Meadowlark Gardens in nearly a month and hope to go back next weekend. Stay tuned...
ps. gotta have at least one Monarch here:
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