Butterflies

I went with my family and some friends to the butterfly pavilion near our house yesterday. This is a fun place to go and easy on people photographing. In the little area where they let the butterflies fly around, you'll see lots of people with much more expensive gear than I have. I don't really have the requisite gear for this, but it is still fun to take a few pictures. The ones below except for the "proud" one are taken with the ultracheap 50mm f/1.8. I use this mostly at f/2.8 as it is a little weak towards the wider open lens. It also can not focus closer than about 45 cm, which severely limits it for this type of photography, but if you know what you are doing you can still get great results. They have a far greater variety of butterflies than what you see here.

Leaf:

D300, 50mm, ISO 200, f/2.8, 1/125s

Symmetric:

D300, 50mm, ISO 200, f/2.5, 1/125s

Proud:

D300, 120mm, ISO 1600, f/4.8, 1/500s

Orange:

D300, 50mm, ISO 200, f/2.8, 1/100s

Extended:

D300, 50mm, ISO 200, f/2.5, 1/1000s

What?

D300, 50mm, ISO 200, f/2.8, 1/125s

You can find bigger versions in the flickr links (click on sizes).