Butterflies - A Canon D60 Macro Portfolio

Butterflies – A Canon D60 Macro Portfolio

October 13, 2013 ·

Michael Reichmann

Butterfly 48, Niagara Ontario - April, 2002

Canon EOS-D60 and Canon 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM. ISO 800. 1/90 sec @ f/2.8 handheld

Well, almost free. In this case admission to theNiagara Parks Butterfly Conservatorycost $8.50.

Butterflies? Why butterflies? I thought you were a landscape and wildlife photographer?

In truth, up until the last week of April, 2002 I'd never taken a picture of a butterfly in my life. But, on a trip to the Niagara Peninsula of Southern Ontario while testing theCanon EOS D60, the weather was so awful that we escaped the heavy thunderstorms and threatened tornado conditions by retreating into this tropical oasis for an hour or so.

Equipment Used

In addition to the D60 camera, for the butterfly photographs shown on this page I used theCanon 100mm f/2.8 Macro USMlens andCanon MR14EXringlight. These are specialized items that unless one does a lot of this type of work will see little use. But if exploring the world of the very small in nature inter...

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Michael Reichmann is the founder of the Luminous Landscape. Michael passed away in May 2016. Since its inception in 1999 LuLa has become the world's largest site devoted to the art, craft, and technology of photography. Each month more than one million people from every country on the globe visit LuLa.