I've been keeping a bit of an eye on the metallic-coloured chrysalis (a photo of which I posted last weekend), and I got lucky this morning. In between rain showers I went outside and managed to catch the butterfly emerging from the crysalis! First time I've ever seen this. It took only about 15 minutes to expand the wings to there full size, and it was amazing to watch. As soon as it emerged it started unfurling its probiscis, as if it was thinking "what's this bit for?". I saw it take its first flight as well, a couple of hours after emerging. Anyway, here are a few photos that I captured. Hope you like them!
Fantastic Stephen. I've never even seen a chrystalis, let alone a butterfly or moth emerging. I'm very envious. You've got some great images as well. Doubly envious
Thanks for the comments Tony, Andrew, Liz, Michael and Eddie!
I'm glad you like the images. I was very lucky with the timing I think. The light levels were quite low due to the overcast conditions (in fact it was drizzling for much of the time), so some of the images are not as sharp as they might have been in brighter conditions, but I'm still happy to have captured the event!
As a suggestion, it would be truly amazing if you could do this from a tripod, without moving the camera at all and then put it all together as an animation.
An animation, at this resolution, would be a stunning achievement.
As a suggestion, it would be truly amazing if you could do this from a tripod, without moving the camera at all and then put it all together as an animation.
Yes, that's a good suggestion Trevor. On this occasion there was a bit of drizzle, so I was moving the camera under cover between shots. But I'll keep it in mind for next time!
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Originally Posted by Dennis
PS – did you use the very handy “contact photo” routine in CS3 to produce the series composite?
I'm using PS7 Dennis, and I'm not sure if it has this feature? It didn't take too long to assemble the panel through, because I already had prepared the 600 pixel height versions for posting here. I just copied and pasted each image onto a full resolution dark frame.
