Giant Swallowtail - Papilio cresphontes - Close-up Butterfly getting nectar from the Santa Barbara California Museum of Natural History Butterflies Alive 2009 exhibit

22 July 2009 Giant Swallowtail - Papilio cresphontes
Thanks to Slappy Vandelay for this final ID. www.flickr.com/photos/mikebaird/3722230299/#comment721576...
23 July 2009 - Used in Wikimedia and toolserver.org/~daniel/WikiSense/CheckUsage.php?i=Close-u...

Close-up Butterfly getting nectar from the Santa Barbara California Museum of Natural History Butterflies Alive 2009 exhibit 13 July 2009. Photo by Michael "Mike" L. Baird, mike [at} mikebaird d o t com, flickr.bairdphotos.com; Canon 5D, 70-200mm f/2.8 IS handheld, with unknown combo of tele- and -extenders as reflected in EXIF. the lesson here is to use (which I did not) a tripod as well as some fill flash. I pushed the ISO as high as I dared (640), set the aperture as wide as willing (f/8) and only rendered 1/160 - a bit too long for this hand held shot - manually focused.

This Giant Swallowtail is one of the few butterflies illustrated on the center's brochure. A wide version showing the wings is posted at www.flickr.com/photos/mikebaird/3722230299/

Steve Corey at www.flickr.com/photos/mikebaird/3718611889/ you ask "EXIF data details "parametric light/shadows, etc. How does this pp help and what program runs this." Almost everything I do these days, including this butterfly image, is a simple Lightroom RAW conversion using the many sliders available. I have not opened CS3 in weeks. Cheers!

09 March 2010 Creative Commons use w/permission at Santa Barbara Museum in a design for transportation and on a bus.
Also featured at Wikipedia.

Lesson: Get close, get closer, you can't get too close.

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Taken in: United States / California / Santa Barbara (show map)

Taken on: July 13, 2009

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Camera: Canon EOS 5D, f/8.0, 1/160 sec, 78mm, ISO 640 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS 5D
Lens:	EF70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM
Aperture:	f/8.0
Exposure Time:	0.006 sec (1/160)
Focal Length:	78mm
ISO:	640
Exposure Bias:	-2/3 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
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