COMMON GRASS YELLOW BUTTERFLY (Eurema hecabe contubernalis)
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LINKED IN Post 4. 25 Oct 2021: Advices for young people - Just Take Photos Daily to acquire digital imaging skills
I am Dr Sing Kong Yuen, 71 years old semi-retired veterinarian from Singapore. The Covid-19 pandemic has adversely affected job security and has caused business failures and losses. In this uncertain future, I write this post in LinkedIn to advise YOUNG people to create things rather than consume by spending hours watching soap operas online during their free time.
One way to acquire digital imaging skills is to "Just Take Photos Daily". You must process and post at least one good photo in your blog or LinkedIn. If you take photos without processing it regularly, you will NOT acquire digital imaging skills in the long term. Here are my tips for the time-pressed readers starting digital photography.
TIP NO. 1: AVOID CAMERA SHAKE. Place your camera on TOP OF THE RAILING of the fence, as in my case. In this way, there will be no hand holding shakes and out of focus images as the butterfly is distant, at 30 feet away.
TIP NO. 2: SETTINGS. For beginners, I advise the "P" (Program Mode), instead of the "M" Mode. This is time-saving for daylight wildlife photography as you don't waste time adjusting ISO, Aperture, Shutter speed if you are not interested in more technical manipulations.
Photographing a SHARP image of the butterfly more than 30 feet away if you hold the camera (a Canon EOS 90D, EFS 18-200 mm lens in my case) will not get you a sharp image usually. This is due to your hand shaking, loss of focus and shutter movement, excluding breezes blowing the butterfly and butterfly movements.
This image is sharp because this butterfly was stationary sipping nectar for more than a minute, instead of fluttering from flower to flower most of the time. There was no breeze. A very good 9 AM sunlight was very helpful. www.shutterstock.com which is stringent on quality has accepted this image as stock photo.
The main tip is that I placed the camera on top of the fence of the shrub area where the butterfly sipped nectar. If I had hand-held the camera, I will never get a sharp image. A tripod is an alternative to placing the camera on the fence rail, but I don’t carry one/
TIP NO. 3: HAVE THE CAMERA WITH YOU WHEN YOU ARE OUTSIDE. Be prepared as some images are unique and one of a kind which pop up during your walk or travel. If you don’t carry your camera with you, you will never get a second chance to take unique stock or family images.
MORE INFORMATION IS AT: https://2010vets.blogspot.com/2021/10/yellow-butterfly-sips
-honey-18-oct-2021.html.
I hope this fourth post with my tip to use “P” Mode will motivate one of the young people who do not have time to fiddle with the technical details of ISO, Aperture and Speed settings to create, not consume.
In conclusion, you have to just start shooting photos daily and post the better ones on your blog to record and review what had not contributed to a sharp image.
I use Linked In to showcase this photograph which is for sale as an example that I do what I “preach”. More importantly, this image is to encourage young people to spare time to acquire digital imaging skills through practice daily.
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Good luck.
PHOTOS FOR SALE AT SHUTTERSTOCK BELOW:
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1. Little Yellow
Landing on a flower with a deep tunnel.
2. Focused on sipping nectar 9.30 am Yio Chu Kang Cres near Lentor Ave for around one minute.
Usually fluttering from flower to flower like the hyperactive person.
This species has a thick brown wing border visible when wings are expanded (see above).
3. A MALE butterfly came to ask her to play. She was not distracted. She ignored him.
Females are paler yellow.
She continue sipping nectar.
PHOTOGRAPHY TIPS:
Grass Yellow butterfly sips nectar for some seconds. Little movement.
Place camera on top of fence rail, therefore not handheld -
ABLE TO FOCUS SHARPLY ON HEAD REGION.
Canon DSLR EOS 90D, EFS lens 18-200 mm.
'P' Mode, AF. Focus on eye. Single point focus. Click a few continuous images. I was lucky to get the sharp ones as my camera was on top of the fence and not shaky.
This butterfly, with its bright lemon yellow wings with black bordering on the upperside and dark brown markings on the underside, is often very variable, particularly in the underside markings. Female is larger and paler yellow, with broader black but diffused markings on the uppersides of both wings. The dark brown marking at the apex of the forewing is rather distinct. However, there are specimens where this marking is very small or even not present.
SINGAPORE WILDLIFE. 20 Oct 2021. Dr Sing Kong Yuen, BVMS (Glasgow). COMMON GRASS YELLOW BUTTERFLY (Eurema hecabe contubernalis)
Deforestation to build the North-South Corridor connecting North Singapore to the city centre has had destroyed many habitats in Yio Chu Kang Crescent/Lentor Ave area, leading to a great loss of other species of butterflies. This Common Grass Yellow butterfly, said to consist of 6 species, is common in Singapore as its caterpillar is not fussy about eating only certain species of plants in the wild.
Most of the time, you will notice that the Grass Yellows flutter from flower to flower, not staying for more than 2 seconds usually. This one sips nectar for several seconds, focused on having a good breakfast. A companion came to ask her to fly with him or her. NO DISTRACTIONS.
This butterfly teaches me the importance of being focused on a task. A good breakfast is also very important, not only for this butterfly, but for people who wish to be healthy mentally and physically.
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1. She chose a flower with deep funnel and purple directional landing guide.
2. Sips nectar single-mindedly for over a minute
3. A male came to ask her to play - "fly with me". She ignored him. This was
her breakfast, around 9AM.
