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Seeing this Tiger Swallowtail butterfly fluttering around a flowering bush beside my home in Georgetown, Colorado, I grabbed this photo with a medium format Pentax 6x7 and 200mm lens with Pentax 2X tele-extender, on ISO 400 Ektachrome with on-camera fill flash and using a long shutter speed (approximately 1/30th second) to record the blur in the fluttering wings while the flash gave good sharpness and a correct exposure to the overall scene, and the extreme shallow depth of field rendered the out of focus background (a large bush with red flowers) as a soft non-distracting blur. All colors but yellows (and greens) were removed in Photoshop to further emphasize the main subject.
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TIGER SWALLOWTAIL
Photographer: Greg Monroe
Greg Monroe | Mar 8, 2017
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Dimensions: 1500x1877
Size: 3622kb
Filed Under: Picture This: Wildlife & Nature Photography
