Travel Photos – Butterfly or Butter cake?

What did I do on Christmas day this year? Tidying up my blog layout. You could see a refreshing new look of Travel Feeder‘s header block! What about Boxing Day? I had a photo shooting session with my friends in KL Butterfly Park. The whole idea of the session was for my friends to try out their new lenses! One was shooting with Tamron SP60 F2 Macro lens while the other was trying his new Tamron 17-50mm f2.8 VC. What about me? I was only using my Nikkor 18-55mm kit lens with macro converter…

While I’m still in the midst of sorting, processing those photos taken in the park, here are 2 photos taken by me (above and below) on Boxing day with my Nikon D60. Both were shot without the macro converter. I decided to take it off because the focus distance is just too close to keep those butterflies in place.

Results from photos captured in the session were mixtures between bad to fair. Virtually no excellent results was captured on that day, one was because of insufficient lighting due to rainy day and the other was due to insufficient equipment… Photographing butterfly is nothing easy like baking a buttercake where temperature and ingredients of cake could be controlled so the results more predictable. Like the one below, 180 degreeC and 30 minutes set in the oven and my Chrismas butter cake was ready to eat! (This butter cake was my little Chrismas present to Jean on the eve)

Macro photography is something I need to practice. Butterflies photography is something very tricky to master. So, which one you prefer, butterflies or buttercakes? - Travel Feeder.

p/s: I’m travelling off to Port Dickson today with my family to celebrate new year. If I missed the countdown tomorrow… Happy New Year 2010 !!