Sometimes playing around with a high quality camera, even an amateur photographer like myself can get a great photo or two. Here are two photos I snapped with my Canon Rebel at the Butterfly exhibit at the Frederik Meijer Gardens in Grand Rapids about a month ago.
Earlier I was trying to hard to shoot the butterflies by hoping they would stay still long enough for the shutter. After capturing a lot of great photos of bushes and other backgrounds, with no butterfly, I decided to try a few shots anticipating where they were headed and snap in front of them. The process is similar to trap and skeet shooting if you have ever done it.
The two photos below were taken one after the other as fast as I could hit the high speed shutter. You can see that there are two of the larger butterflies, moving very fast in a mating ritual. They actually hovered over a brochure with butterfly photos on it that was in this mans rear pocket.
When I went through this exhibit, I carried a yellow back pack with me, and I later learned from other visiting the exhibit that all the butterflies were behind me landing on the pack. Didn't I look like the fool with my camera searching aimlessly for butterflies to focus on?
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