What needs to pay attention to shoot butterfly

1. To understand the butterfly features

Butterfly species is various, each of the life cycle of a butterfly, adult time, and haunt the site is differ, so have to catch the butterfly of right needs to understand their behavior. I suggested that we can start with butterfly map search target data, then according to their haunted by the time, to the appropriate location shooting, the success rate in nature.

2. The temperature influence the butterfly

Because the butterfly is warming animals, their body temperature is influenced by the environment, too high or too low are inappropriate activity, therefore the butterfly will only within the specific range of temperature. Butterfly is in commonly 28 ° C temperature range between 20 ° C is the most active. If the temperature is higher than 30 ° C, most of the butterflies will hide in the forest or grass, difficult to detect.

3. The time according to the season

One day temperature in changes continuously, the butterfly will only in the most suitable temperature circumstances. In the summer when the butterfly usually before 10 when 30 points in the morning and afternoon 3 PM in the evening time, and step into the winter after the active time of butterfly opposite, they love in the morning to afternoon 4 when activities.

4. Whether to use flash depends on butterfly

Some butterflies fear flash, some will not, so whether choose flashlight according to individual butterfly. People don't have to use flash, however, in case photography, natural light has photos of exposure is enough, enough is usually taken in macro photography talent must use flash when auxiliary.

5. Eating is the optimal timing of filming

Butterfly is particularly focused on when eating, it is not easily detect the presence of foreign objects, so the photographer can wait for the butterfly eating moment to lift machine, and the success rate will be increased.

6. Act in slow motion

Stirred the subject animals fear most, in order to avoid the scared butterfly, photographer of avoid by all means see butterflies after immediately rushed forward, if know oneself personality impulses, photography can catch butterflies, over a long distance to avoid disturb the butterfly because of too excited. Photography human action should be slow down as far as possible, even in the scope of butterfly and waiting for a period of time, the move will help photography into the environment, it cannot only avoid the butterfly fly away by the sudden shock, and let the butterfly people mistakenly assume that photography is a part of the environment. In addition, when walking, avoid touching a flower or grassing because the butterfly can't smell the sound, but can feel the vibrations, so sometimes don't even talk too much.

7. Pay attention to the lens color

Butterfly is sensitive to the luminosity of high color, the color is shallow, the higher the luminosity, some white shell of the lens may touch the butterfly. Photography can use dark or camouflage color cloth cover lens white part, and slow movements, ease let butterfly aware of photography people exist.