Black Butterfly 2

[harmon1]

Do you think this pic is sharper than the first black butterfly.

[Viana]

Sorry, Hamon, it isn't. The focus appears to me to be on the flower.

How are you focusing?

[Loose Canon]

Hello Harmon.

Looks to me like the front part of the flower and the butterfly's lower left wing are in the same focal plane, just barely missing getting his face/eye in focus.

Looks like you had a fast shutter speed going on for this one, so you could possibly sacrifice a bit of that to stop down your aperture a bit for a deeper depth of field. Might try using your AF center point and shoot for his eye instead of manual.

A lot of times after a shot like this I'll check it on the camera's LCD and zoom it way in to see if what I had hoped to get in focus actually is in focus. Sometimes its still hard for me to tell looking at the back of a camera seeing as I am blind in one eye and can't see too good out of the other! And butterflies have the attention span of a fly when it comes to modeling for us!

Well, hindsight being 20-20 and all!

Sure is a beautiful creature, though!