Plain Tiger Butterflies Mating

[Kumaran Narayanaswamy]

Taken at Kelambakkam 11/08/2012


Nikon D4, Nikon 70-300, 300mm ISO 1000 f 11 Shutter speed 1/400. Handheld.Cropped.

[Mrudul Godbole]

Nice natural history moment captured. Moving a bit more to left would have helped to get them more parallel to the sensor giving more depth of field. Did you try a vertical composition? Thanks for sharing.

[Kumaran Narayanaswamy]

no this was in a middle of bush and i had to slowly got inside bush as much as i can without disturbing and i shot them horizontally

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Nice to see a mating pair. May be a wider aperture keeping the camera parallel to the wings would have helped in an even better diffused background. Thanks for sharing.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Abhishek Jamalabad]

These are Plain Tiger butterflies Danaus chrysippus, closely related to the Monarch (in Africa it is called the African Monarch). Nice find. Agree with the above suggestions.
TFS