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Friday, June 11th, 2010
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Butterfly Camera D60 Digital Family Garden Nikon Photos Pictures Zoo
Butterfly in the sky, I can fly twice as high….
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These are some quick and dirty photos I took this weekend at the White River Gardens in Indy. Each year they have hundreds (maybe thousands) of butterflies flying around the enclosed garden area. It’s very cool, and if you have the chance, I highly recommend checking it out. Anyway, if you like any of these, please drop a comment. According to google, this site gets a fair amount of unique visitors each day, but no one ever leaves a comment. Yes, I realize that this last sentence was full of self pity, but I love attention, so there you go. Anywho, these were all taken with my D60, Sigma 70-300mm lens, mostly in aperture priority, though some in manual, and ISO 100, 200, or 400.
Indy Butterfly 2010
These photos were taken at the White River Gardens in Indianapolis. It is adjacent to the Zoo, and free with admission to the zoo. Each year they have hundreds (thousands?) of butterflies in the enclosed garden area just flying around. It's pretty neat. Here are some photos I took there this weekend.
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What was the f stop setting?
Most of these were shot at the maximum aperture of the lens (which I know makes them less sharp, but it’s not a fast lens so I needed it) which is 4 at 70mm and 5.6 at 300mm. Most of these were taken at 300mm.
Seems you might be finding your niche as a nature photographer. I have seen a lot of improvement from when you first started taking pictures. These are all very good.