Clouded Sulphur on Coneflower #2 - a photo on Flickriver

Clouded Sulphur on Coneflower #2

            I've been chasing these fast moving. flittery, nervous flying jewels for a while with close to zero luck. So I changed strategy and this morning I got a good amount of keepers. I backed off and tried to stay low to not cast a big shadow and used my Takumar 200mm f3.5 vintage lens. Its a bit or a beast to use, but once you play with it enough, you get pretty quick with it. Though the focus throw is very large. Moving from near to far ( a 2 foot distance) takes at least 200 plus degrees of a turn. But the minimum focus distance with this lens is 2.5 meters or just over 8 feet. To close that gap and to get the creatures larger in the frame, I added a M42, focusing helicoid as an extender to be able to focus closer than 8ft. 
in the end, I think I did pretty good this morning. It was a target rich environment in my front yard. The coneflowers have spread far and wide and the butterflies and bumble bees were everywhere!

Shot using a Takumar 200mm f3.5 @f8 and 25mm or extension helicoid

Taken on: July 13, 2024

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Camera: Canon EOS R7, f/0, 1/500 sec, 0mm, ISO 200 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS R7
Aperture:	f/0
Exposure Time:	0.002 sec (1/500)
Focal Length:	0mm
ISO:	200
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	No Flash
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Manual
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Luminar Neo
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