Some shots of Butterflies

A FEW SHOTS OF BUTTERFLIES I TOOK IN MY LOCALITY
             Although my point and shoot camera Canon PowerShot A3300 IS doesn't assist very well in macro photography but that's all I have and I love to take these pictures of the most colourful creature of nature..So here are some shots of the butterflies along with their ID and exif details.

GRAY PANSY BUTTERFLY

F/2.8, 

EXPOSURE TIME 1/10 Sec, 

ISO 400,

FOCAL LENGTH 5mm

GRASS JEWEL BUTTERFLY

F/8, 

EXPOSURE TIME 1/80 Sec, 

ISO 80,

FOCAL LENGTH 5mm

GRASS JEWEL BUTTERFLY

F/2.8, 

EXPOSURE TIME 1/500 Sec, 

ISO 80,

FOCAL LENGTH 5mm

COMMON PIERROT BUTTERFLY

F/2.8, 

EXPOSURE TIME 1/250 Sec, 

ISO 80,

FOCAL LENGTH 5mm

COMMON JEZEBEL BUTTERFLY

F/2.8, 

EXPOSURE TIME 1/320 Sec, 

ISO 80,

FOCAL LENGTH 5mm

PEACOCK PANSY BUTTERFLY

F/2.8, 

EXPOSURE TIME 1/400 Sec, 

ISO 80,

FOCAL LENGTH 5mm

PEACOCK PANSY

F/2.8, 

EXPOSURE TIME 0.8 Sec, 

ISO 400,

FOCAL LENGTH 5mm

COMMON TIGER BUTTERFLY

F/2.8, 

EXPOSURE TIME 1/320 Sec, 

ISO 80,

FOCAL LENGTH 5mm

F/2.8, 

EXPOSURE TIME 1/320 Sec, 

ISO 80,

FOCAL LENGTH 5mm

COMMON MIME BUTTERFLY

F/2.8, 

EXPOSURE TIME 1/80 Sec, 

ISO 80,

FOCAL LENGTH 5mm

COMMON LIME BUTTERFLY

F/8, 

EXPOSURE TIME 1/125 Sec, 

ISO 80,

FOCAL LENGTH 5mm

Common Grass Yellow  BUTTERFLY

F/8, 

EXPOSURE TIME 1/80 Sec, 

ISO 80,

FOCAL LENGTH 5mm

Common Grass Yellow  BUTTERFLY

F/8, 

EXPOSURE TIME 1/100 Sec, 

ISO 80,

FOCAL LENGTH 5mm

That's all for now, will post new photos when I get more..Till then stay well :-)

A Prized Shot Of Common Jezebel Butterfly

‎Thursday, ‎November ‎29, ‎2012, ‏‎4:53:52 PM:
                   When I first started macro photography, specially butterfly photography, Common Jezebel butterfly was one of those butterflies I longed to click. It's yellow, reddish orange and black striped wings always fascinated me. No doubt it is one of the most beautiful butterflies found in West Bengal. But I had never been able to take a shot of this beautiful creature as it never sat on a flower patiently. Once I spent almost an hour standing amidst of chest length bush to get a shot bt in vain. I almost left the hope of clicking it's picture when one noon while gardening on the roof my mother spotted it and called me. I immediately went up and found it gleefully prancing around the flowering plants on the roof. This time I was determined and after 7-8 attempts I was successful in capturing it's picture and was highly satisfied.

COMMON JEZEBEL BUTTERFLY ---colours of life

Camera- Canon PowerShot A3300 IS
EXIF:  ISO-80
            Exposure time- 1/320 sec
            Focal length- 5mm
            f/2.8

Place: Halisahar

One shot by my mother. Well, she's not so happy with my clicking pictures, but with this shot I can surely tell that she somewhere in mind approves photography!!! LOL :-)

My first shot : COMMON MIME BUTTERFLY

 ‎February, ‎2013, ‏‎6:11:08 PM:
              The day was like any other day..Mom woke me up forcefully as I was (neither am) not a morning person...I had to go to my maths tution which was not far from my house and I would go by cycling ..jst as I left my house and covered not more than 25 feet outside the gate, an unbelievable sight caught my eyes and I  came down of my cycle..a beautiful (I was like OH MY GOD!!! where did this beautiful thing come from?!) butterfly was sitting on a flower,(in bengali we call it "nayantara") steadily. I being a photography junkie always carried my Canon PowerShot A3300 IS camera inside my bag, so I took out my camera, left my bag in the basket of my cycle and went on forward to take a shot...at first I took the shot from distance resulting a not-so-good-at-all macro like this..

I was amazed to see that the butterfly didn't move..I gathered some more courage and moved a little forward, the butterfly still didn't move.. so I started to take continuous shots like these...

These shots gave me much satisfaction as I didn't captures photos of butterflies before, I used to think that it was not my job to capture beautiful butterflies as they are too fragile, but with those shots of one of the most beautiful butterfly I got not only enough satisfaction bt also lot more confidence to shoot butterflies...So i can say it was my first step to the world of butterfly photography i.e. macro photography..The morning which was very boring just before shooting the butterfly, was now a fresh morning to me..I saw that even after taking so many shots of the butterfly, still it was in the same place not moving a little bit...as if it was there to give me my first shot, my one of the best shot ever....

My tutor Tapash Kumar Dutta, who is also a great photographer, I showed the photos taken by camera to him after the tution was over..He was also amazed and couldn't recall it's ID...I even showed the photos to my parents, who were not supportive iin my photography and they were also amazed..It was after I posted the photo on my Facebook profile, my favourite tutor Sumit Chakraborty, a master-clicker gave a beautiful comment along with the ID of this beautiful gift of nature--- "COMMON MIME BUTTERFLY"..