Butterflies Flying At Night

Butterflies at night. No they don't really fly at night. Only fake ones do.



Painted with light.

Dry Flower In The Dark

I tried out the FA 50mm f 1.4 lens and was really impressed by its sharpness. Off course, I can only compare it to the 18 - 55mm zoom. If I see the photo below at 100% crop at the base of the vase, I'm truly impressed. This has really gotten me to look at prime lens more than a zoom.



This bunch of dried flowers sits on my coffee table. Lit with a LED torchlight that gives out white light, I had a bit of fun experimenting with lighting it from the top and the side.

Butterflies In The Dark

I've often wondered what butterflies do at night. Do they sleep? Or do they just find some flowers and wait there till morning? Or are they as busy as us? I found out that they like to be photographed. The fake ones anyway.

I took the vase into the bedroom and set it away from the wall. We have a lot of windows so the room wasn't totally dark and I worked quickly to the this photo.

ISO 200, f/7.1 Shutter 6 sec

Been Thinking Lately

 

I've been doing a bit of thinking lately. Since I don't have much time to shoot outdoors, I decided to shoot this fella. He's been created to think, this wooden sculpture. I didn't have a model so he's the next best choice.

Shot at ISO 200, f8, 6 sec, lit with a LED torchlight

Checking Your Shutter Count

Finally, wanted to find out how many shots I've taken with the K100d. I downloaded Exiftool. Exiftool is a command line tool. Unzip that file. I do not know whether the path Exiftool is specific in Windows. Since the tool is small & you do not need to install it, my suggestion is to just cut & paste Exiftool to a temporary directory. Copy & paste your photo to the same directory. Go to Start Menu, Programs, Accessories and click on Command Prompt. Change the directory to where your temporary directory is located. Then type "exiftool imagename.jpg" You have to type in the full filename including the .jpg or .pef etc.

Here's my shutter count

Besides the shutter count, you can also see things like circle of confusion, your hyper focal distance, view of view. Have a blast.

Then I check up on the photo before the K100d was handed to me & I realized the shutter count was around 3,600. Practically brand new. In a span of 7 month, I've shot closed to 6,300 shots. Off course I bracketed my shots for HDR & shot a bunch of photos to stitch a few panoramas.

By the way, the photo I took was really crappy so I'd rather not post it up here.