Taking your time

White Butterfly

This is a photograph that I took when out for a walk. There were a lot of white butterflies about on this patch of flowers, but, as is usual with the whites, they don’t stay still for long. I followed my own rules and took a couple of pictures further away which will be OK when cropped a little. Happy that I had some good pictures I then moved a little closer and looked briefly at the composition of the picture before I pressed the shutter button. The result is a picture that needed no cropping, has all the detail I needed, has good colours and the right depth of field.
The photograph was taken once more with my 100mm macro lens handheld at ISO200 1/200secs and f/8.0.
If I could take it again, I may reduce the aperture slightly to make the top of the front wing and antenna a little sharper.