{"id":5682,"date":"2026-05-20T22:18:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T21:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/?p=5682"},"modified":"2026-05-20T22:19:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T21:19:51","slug":"chasing-butterflies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/chasing-butterflies\/","title":{"rendered":"Chasing butterflies"},"content":{"rendered":"

I took a very weird setup for a walk yesterday – A7CR and the FE 50mm f\/1.2 GM; the light camera and the heaviest 50mm. I expected to get pictures of poppies, so I took something that’s neither too narrow nor too wide, and can slice through the chaos of the brush. Unfortunately, we found no poppies, but lots of butterflies, for which 50mm is way too short.<\/p>\n

The thing with butterflies, however, is that sometimes you get lucky and one just rests there and you can get as close as you want.<\/p>\n

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When you manage to get close, the 50mm f\/1.2 absolutely rules. It’s completely sharp wide open, and that means very short exposure at base ISO, which means super clean image. I even had enough time to compose a branch between the lens and the butterfly, giving it a green haze for atmosphere.<\/p>\n

It’s a bit weird to use this lens for that, but I did get it for something similar – cutting through chaos of the brush, while still retaining enough of a wide angle. That I managed to get the butterfly with a short portrait lens was sheer dumb luck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I took a very weird setup for a walk yesterday – A7CR and the FE 50mm f\/1.2 GM; the light camera and the heaviest 50mm. I expected to get pictures of poppies, so I took something that’s neither too narrow … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5682"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5685,"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5682\/revisions\/5685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}