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10-DEC-2006

Newly emerged Queen

This is what came out. Not a great shot of the butterfly -- too dark. The colors tend to be dark after they first emerge and that plus the light-colored background made this a bit difficult. I took this as an automatic series of photos, one per minute, so I didn't always get good exposures. I was trying to do a time lapse of this process that I could later make into a short movie but one minute is way too long between shots. One second would be better since the butterfly comes out in just a couple of minutes. But that requires knowing about when it's going to pop out so you don't run out of battery before the process starts.

Nikon D200
1/60s f/13.0 at 170.0mm iso640 full exif

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