Butterfly Garden

Yesterday I was trying out new tricks with my camera. I was attempting to capture the butterflies flitting around with a longer exposure. Trouble is, I have a hard time holding perfectly still. This is a UCM shot (unintentional camera movement), but I rather liked the dreamy, painting like effect. If you look close, you can see some butterflies in the shot almost bokeh looking.

I mean, I meant to do this.

Happy Friday and almost weekend, friends!!!

[Sharyn's Shots シ]

It has created a wonderful painted effect to the garden. Beautiful.

[Juliette Packham]

Made for a nice abstract though! Just checked your exif info, you could have dropped your f/ to about 11 which would have brought your exposure time down to under a second. Even if you are on a tripod and you want blur from people (which is what you were aiming at for your trip) 2.5 second is way too long - you'll likely just get grey haze over your shot as they will have come and gone! You could have reduced your f/ number to 11 and if that was still giving over a second increase your ISO to 200 or maybe 400.
Hope that helps...Have a fabulous weekend your self

[Jerri]

very nice tip @sparkle this is a cool painterly effect. great ripple of tones

[Aleksandra]

Very cool, the colours are wonderful!

[Nada A.]

Lovely abstract USM.

[Amrita]

Wonderful abstract! :-)

[Lisa Pouncy]

Very impressionistic. Lovely colours xx

[Meg]

Pretty blur...even unintentionally..y hubby tells me that Sharon Woods Park is a beautiful area.....he was driving around there yesterday.

[alia_801]

Nice result - looks very impressionist to me :)

[Barb Smith]

So let's call it intentional camera movement. I think it works very well - so painterly.

[KWind]

I love the result! Beautiful colours and abstract sort of texture.

[Taffy]

Love your description!! But you are right -- it makes a great abstract. A new acronym - UCM -- perfect!

[Lisa]

UCM - made me smile - lovely, like an impressionist painting! : )

[Myrna O'Hara]

Say what. I had to check to make sure i had my glasses on. nice abstract.

[Carly]

love the painterly feel, a lovely happy accident :)

[Carren]

Very interesting shot - beautiful colors!

[Kathryn 🐎]

This is very cool. I like the dreamy or surreal feel about it.

[Arefin]

I really like the effect here! very artistic! superb capture!

[Kev]

Very abstract! Works!

[Lisa Stein]

Love the UCM acronym. I have a few of those myself! This one looks cool. I like the wavy lines.

[Simply Amanda]

@pflaume @snaggy @wind_of_the_sothern_sea @bristolrose @nana2r @cazink @sailingmusic @rennes @taffy @kwind @barbsmith @alia_801 @megmills @psychographer @amrita21 @nadaa @aleksandra @moreyoulessme @sewsharyn @sparkle

Thanks for all of your lovely comments on my happy mistake, my UCM madness. Thanks for your encouragement and pointers. Hope that I didn't make anyone sick with this shot;-). Happy Monday!

[Darlene]

Very different and colorful but does not work well with my Vertigo. Will have to look at it when I am not dizzy already.

[Simply Amanda]

@darsphotos Oh lady, soooo sorry. I will try to post less mistakes. Shoot!

[PasadenaRose]

Um...yeah...I see a butterfly in there. Of course I do. It's right there by the flower, near the leaf. ;-) Right? LOL

[Simply Amanda]

@pasadenarose You are funny. I think that there look to be some white ones in there somewhere in the middle.