Macro Photo Competition 2013 No 6 : Entry Number 124

Congratulations for this wonderful picture! I like everything here, colors, composition, sharpness .... For me it is a perfect picture. Very very good job.

Hi everyone. My name is Petar Sabol. I am from Croatia and my passion is macro photography as well as wildlife. I found this beautiful butterfly in the meadow by nearest forest just one kilometer away from home. I was using Sony Alpha a77 camera with Sigma 180mm macro lens. The optimum aperture was at F10 to keep good background blur and to achieve enough depth of field. I was using tripod with cable release and stacked few shots to get butterfly and stem all in focus. ISO was set lowest possible , ISO 50 , for best possible quality and shutter speed was 1/5 sec.