Some butterfly shots from MacRitchie Nature Trail

[simonsng]

Nice to meet EVC there today ;p

anyway, here are some of the shots... quite poor actually, the nature trail was especially quiet (not many butt around)

enjoy the photos and feel free to comment. I also need help IDing some of them :sweatsm:

[1]Manage to ID one of my previous butt in Pahang

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[FujiS2]

The "Malay Viscount" seems to be a "Palm King".
Nice collection. Probably, I will revisit the trail morrow morning.

look like a saturn to me :think:

 

[jbma]

Cool Shots dude :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

 

[macross]

The 4th looks like Common Mormon.

 

[Lion king]

look like a saturn to me :think:

AGreed. A male.

#9 is a female cruiser. They tend to be larger than the males.
#13 is a purple duke
#15 is a femal archduke.

I see you found the lantana plant along the fence. :bsmilie:


:cheers:

 

[simonsng]

errrrr... oops.. forgotten to remove the malay viscount tag apology wanna you guys to ID it

Didnt manage to take much good shots, going there tmr again :bsmilie: . Yes, I'm addicted to butterflies :blah:

Lionking, I took your suggestion and tried manual mode, shooting mostly at 1/80-1/125. background came out just nice... need to perfect shooting techniques......... and yeah, I found the Lantana

 

[evc]

Hey Simon, nice meeting you too In fact, yest was my most fruitful trip in term of species spotted. Hee, thanks for that 100 plus Lovely shots you have there :thumbsup: BTW, noticed that the DOF of your pictures were very good, what aperture do you normally used huh?

 

[simonsng]

Hey Simon, nice meeting you too In fact, yest was my most fruitful trip in term of species spotted. Hee, thanks for that 100 plus Lovely shots you have there :thumbsup: BTW, noticed that the DOF of your pictures were very good, what aperture do you normally used huh?

not mention it :embrass: just a 100+

the aperture setting for the shoots was manual mode, f14, ISO 200, 1/80-1/200