Guide to the Butterflies of Singapore

[Commander]

As some of you may already be aware, we are working on a new book, tentatively titled "Guide to the Butterflies of Singapore". The book is expected to feature almost all the successfully recorded and confirmed species of butterflies in Singapore, currently hovering around the 290 species mark, if we can get some of our recent re-discoveries confirmed by various experts.

Each species will be featured on one page of the book, with a primary photo of the species and up to 4 secondary photos. The publisher's layout artist will be giving me a sample page shortly and I'll post it when I get it.

I will be asking Sunny and Anthony to help me collect the photos from as many of you as possible, to be featured in the book. I'll be doing most of the writing, which should be kept to a minimum, as the book intends to portray photos of the species to help the buyers to ID Singapore butterflies.



For those of you submitting your photos, please use the following format when making your submissions :

300 dpi resolution
2000 pixels at the widest end. The book is 12.5cm (about 5") wide.
If your shot is in portrait orientation, use 2000 pixels for the height.
Those using CS2 or CS3, please save your shots under CMYK and TIFF. Do not sharpen your shots, as this may cause some pixellation in the printing. However, you may adjust the colours and contrast to your preference as seen on your screen (preferably calibrated)
The resolution should allow us to crop a bit where necessary, so please do not overcrop your shots until the butt is too tight in the frame.

We will be looking for shots featuring, upper/undersides, male/females, forms, unique poses etc to show as many of BC members' shots as possible.

All contributors will get a free copy of the book. :) The book is sponsored. But to make it available to the general public, we intend selling a limited number of copies at S$25.

So please dig out your best shots and standby to email them to Sunny, Anthony or me. Note that the copyright and IP of the photos belongs to the photographer(s) and will only be used for the book.

[Elbowed Pierrot]

never put deadline har

[Commander]

never put deadline har

By yesterday... ;P

[Great Mormon]

im not sure about prints. Anyways. if the images are less than 2000px, is it ok to enlarge it to 2000px?

Another question will be is it ok to convery a jpeg to CMYK?
just wondering abt the limitations..

[Commander]

If you need to enlarge it, chances are that the quality will not be as good. I believe Simon has some software which can interpolate the pixels when making the output larger than the actual size of the picture.

From what I've been told, the colour correction when using JPG requires a lot more work. Hence even if a JPG file is converted to TIFF, in extreme cases, the colour will be inaccurate when printed. That's why many of us shoot in RAW. This is for the day when we want to see our works in print and on large formats. :)

[Commander]

im not sure about prints. Anyways. if the images are less than 2000px, is it ok to enlarge it to 2000px?

I'm using 2000 pixels as a rough guide, since we may have to crop the pic abit for the book.

Otherwise, the calculations were based on 300dpi, and 5" wide - which would theoretically make the shot just nice at 1500 pixels wide.

[Great Mormon]

If you need to enlarge it, chances are that the quality will not be as good. I believe Simon has some software which can interpolate the pixels when making the output larger than the actual size of the picture.

From what I've been told, the colour correction when using JPG requires a lot more work. Hence even if a JPG file is converted to TIFF, in extreme cases, the colour will be inaccurate when printed. That's why many of us shoot in RAW. This is for the day when we want to see our works in print and on large formats. :)

yes, i shoot in raw too but i deleted a huge amounts of it to clear space for newer pictures =[

[Commander]

Just 1 keeper shot would do. No need to keep large files around unless you have 4Tb of hard disk like Simon. ;P

[Silverstreak]

Try...

Genuine fractal (http://www.ononesoftware.com/detail.php?prodLine_id=2)

... you should know where to get a copy of it.

[Great Mormon]

thanks sunny for introducing the program. of coz i know where to get it :D
is there a program that is good for converting jpgs to CMYK?

[Silverstreak]

Anthony,

Tif format in PS is good enough....dun need CMYK.

Why dunch you make life simpler for yourself from now on ....

Default your raw converter to 300 dpi on 16 bits ...... and include a step in your workflow to save your processed shot into tif format at 8 bits before saving it to Jpg for resizing for the web.

It does not really take up that much space if you save it in 8 bits, of course if HD space is not an issue and you are kiasu, then by all means save it in 16 bits (double the size ) .;P

It is those unwanted shots in raw that are taking up all the space , normally I deleted the whole dejected lot after I creamed off those I want from a day's load.

[Great Mormon]

Hello everyone, as khew mentioned we are collecting pictures for the book. ive created a ftp for all of you to upload your pictures.

you can create a folder and start dumping your photos inside.
Just to keep things simple. please follow the naming convention.
1) Foldername = yourname/nick
2) filename = butterflyname - yourname
3) you may put your different butts into diff folders

here is how you log in...

1. you can just launch this from any file browser or IE explorer
10456

2. key in "ftp://butterflycircle.com" in the address bar
10457

3. some error msg will come out, just press ok
10458

4. right click and click "login as"
10459

5. username = buttpic@butterflycircle.com password = helloworld
10460

just drop me a message if you guys run into any trouble. Free book by uncle Khew hor! hard to miss out on the offer :what:

:cheers:

[m00nman26]

can i pass u in a CD? :)

[Great Mormon]

can also james! label them properly hor!

[Commander]

Hang on... I'll need to give you guys a proper filename protocol, otherwise the shots will get jumbled up and you may be wrongly credited in the book.

The publisher's layout artist suggested something. I left it at home. Will update on this thread.

In their last experience in the Mammals of Singapore book, it was a nightmare sorting out all the photos, scientific names/labels and the authors' names cos each file was named differently.

[Silverstreak]

In their last experience in the Mammals of Singapore book, it was a nightmare sorting out all the photos, scientific names/labels and the authors' names cos each file was named differently.

:bsmile::bsmile: Like :


Papilio khew malayanus (Sin Khoon Butterfly)

and

Apasalah sunny kausambi ( Fish Head Curry Judy ) ???


:bsmile::bsmile::bsmile:

[atronox]

How big(dimensions) will the book be?

[Cigaritis wong]

I hv only a few of shots which I would like to contribute but I shoot only in jpeg, so how? Can give u in jpeg highest quality?

[Elbowed Pierrot]

khew, what naming system you wanna standardize?

[Commander]

Filename : Genus_species_subspecies_authorname

We'll make amendments for male/female and so on as we go along. Please indicate your authorname the way you want it to appear next to your photo.

[Painted Jezebel]

SK. as I've said before, my photos are not of sufficient quality, but if you need an English Proof Reader, let me know.

[Silverstreak]

Family : Lycaenidae Subfamily : Lycaeninae

133 Castalius rosimon rosimon (Common Pierrot)
134 Caleta elna elvira (Elbowed Pierrot)
135 Everes lacturnus rileyi (Indian Cupid)
136 Neopithecops zalmora zalmora (The Quaker)
137 Megisba malaya sikkima (The Malayan)
138 Acytolepis puspa lambi (Common Hedge Blue)
139 Zizina otis lampa (Lesser Grass Blue)
140 Zizula hylax pygmaea (Pygmy Grass Blue)
141 Zizeeria maha serica (Pale Grass Blue)
142 Chilades pandava pandava (Cycad Blue)
143 Euchrysops cnejus cnejus (Gram Blue)
144 Catochrysops strabo strabo Forget-Me-Not)
145 Catochrysops panormus exiguus (Silver Forget-Me-Not)
146 Lampides boeticus (Pea Blue)
147 Jamides bochus nabonassar (Dark Caerulean)
148 Jamides celeno aelianus (Common Caerulean)
149 Jamides malaccanus malaccanus (Soldier Caerulean)
150 Jamides caeruleus caeruleus (Sky Blue)
151 Nacaduba sanaya elioti
152 Nacaduba pavana singapura
153 Nacaduba beroe neon
154 Nacaduba berenice icena (Rounded 6-Line Blue)
155 Nacaduba calauria malayica
156 Nacaduba biocellata (Two Spotted Line Blue)
157 Ionolyce helicon merguiana (Pointed Line Blue)
158 Prosotas nora superdates (Common Line-Blue)
159 Prosotas dubiosa lumpura (Tailless Line Blue)
160 Catopyrops ancyra (Ancyra Blue)
161 Petrelaea dana dana (Dingy Line Blue)
162 Anthene emolus goberus (Ciliate Blue)
163 Anthene lycaenina miya (Pointed Ciliate Blue)
164 Spindasis syama terana (Club/Black Banded Silverline)
165 Spindasis lohita senama (Long Banded Silverline)
166 Arhopala centaurus nakula (Centaur Oak Blue)
167 Arhopala myrzala lammas
168 Arhopala aedias agnis (Large Metallic Oakblue)
169 Arhopala atosia malayana (Tailed Disc Oakblue)
170 Arhopala epimuta epiala (Common Disc Oakblue)
171 Arhopala amphimuta amphimuta
172 Arhopala major major
173 Arhopala antimuta antimuta
174 Arhopala pseudomuta pseudomuta (Raffles' Oakblue)
175 Arhopala athada athada
176 Arhopala silhetensis adorea (Sylhet Oakblue)
177 Arhopala eumolphus maxwelli (Green Oakblue)
178 Arhopala aurea
179 Arhopala trogon
180 Arhopala ammon ammon
181 Arhopala abseus abseus (Aberrant Oakblue)
182 Flos diardi capeta
183 Flos fulgida singhapura
184 Flos anniella anniella
185 Flos apidanus saturatus
186 Semanga superba deliciosa
187 Surendra vivarna amisena (Acacia Blue)
188 Iraota rochana boswelliana (Scarce Silverstreak)
189 Iraota distanti distanti (Spotted Silverstreak)
190 Loxura atymnus fuconius (Yamfly)
191 Eooxylides tharis distanti (Branded Imperial)
192 Cheritra freja frigga (Common Imperial)
193 Drupadia ravindra moorei (Common Posy)
194 Drupadia rufotaenia rufotaenia (Pygmy Posy)
195 Drupadia theda thesmia (Dark Posy)
196 Horaga syrinx maenala (Ambon Onyx)
197 Pratapa deva relata (White Royal)
198 Tajuria cippus maxentius (Peacock Royal)
199 Tajuria mantra mantra
200 Tajuria dominus dominus
201 Rachana jalindra burbona (Banded Royal)
202 Jacoona anasuja anasuja (Great Imperial)
203 Neocheritra amrita amrita (Grand Imperial)
204 Manto hypoleuca terana (Green Imperial)
205 Remelana jangala travana (Chocolate Royal)
206 Pseudotajuria donatana donatana (Golden Royal)
207 Ancema blanka blanka (Silver Royal)
208 Hypolycaena thecloides thecloides
209 Hypolycaena erylus teatus (Common Tit)
210 Zeltus amasa maximinianus (Fluffy Tit)
211 Deudorix epijarbas cinnabarus (Cornelian)
212 Deudorix elioti
213 Virachola kessuma deliochus (Pitcher Blue)
214 Sinthusa nasaka amba (Narrow Spark)
215 Bindahara phocides phocides (The Plane)
216 Rapala domitia domitia (Yellow Flash)
217 Rapala suffusa barthema (Suffused Flash)
218 Rapala pheretima sequeira (Copper Flash)
219 Rapala dieneces dieneces (Scarlet Flash)
220 Rapala iarbus iarbus (Common Red Flash)
221 Rapala manea chozeba (Slate Flash)
222 Rapala varuna orseis (Indigo Flash)

Family : Hesperiidae Subfamily : Coeliadinae

223 Burara etelka (Great Orange Awlet)
224 Burara harisa consobrina (Orange Awlet)
225 Bibasis sena uniformis (Orange-Tail Awl)
226 Hasora chromus chromus (Common Banded Awl)
227 Hasora taminatus malayana (White Banded Awl)
228 Hasora schoenherr chuza (Yellow Banded Awl)
229 Hasora badra badra (Common Awl)
230 Hasora vitta vitta (Plain Banded Awl)
231 Badamia exclamationis (Brown Awl)

Family : Hesperiidae Subfamily : Pyrginae

232 Tapena thwaitesi bornea
233 Odina hieroglyphica ortina
234 Pseudocoladenia dan dhyana (Fulvous Pied Flat)
235 Gerosis limax dirae
236 Gerosis sinica minima
237 Tagiades japetus atticus (Common Snow Flat)
238 Tagiades gana gana (Large Snow Flat)
239 Tagiades ultra
240 Tagiades calligana
241 Odontoptilum angulatum angulatum (Chestnut Angle)

Family : Hesperiidae Subfamily : Hesperiinae

242 Ampittia dioscorides camertes (Bush Hopper)
243 Halpe ormenes vilasina
244 Iambrix salsala salsala (Chestnut Bob)
245 Iambrix stellifer (Starry Bob)
246 Psolos fuligo fuligo (Coon)
247 Ancistroides nigrita maura (Chocolate Demon)
248 Notocrypta paralysos varians (Banded Demon)
249 Udaspes folus (Grass Demon)
250 Suastus gremius gremius (Palm Bob)
251 Suastus everyx everyx
252 Zographetus doxus
253 Hyarotis adrastus praba (Tree Flitter)
254 Quedara monteithi monteithi
255 Plastingia naga (Chequered Lancer)
256 Plastingia pellonia (Yellow Chequered Lancer)
257 Pemara pugnans (Pugnacious Lancer)
258 Pyroneura latoia latoia (Yellow Vein Lancer)
259 Zela storeyi
260 Gangara thyrsis thyrsis (Giant Redeye)
261 Gangara lebadea lebadea (Banded Redeye)
262 Matapa aria (Common Redeye)
263 Erionota torus
264 Erionota thrax thrax (Banana Skipper)
265 Erionota hiraca apicalis
266 Unkana ambasa batara (Hoary Palmer)
267 Hidari irava (Coconut Skipper)
268 Eetion elia
269 Taractrocera ardonia lamia
270 Taractrocera archias quinta
271 Oriens gola pseudolus (Common Dartlet)
272 Potanthus omaha omaha (Lesser Dart)
273 Cephrenes acalle niasicus
274 Telicota besta bina (Besta Palm Dart)
275 Telicota augias augias (Palm Dart)
276 Pelopidas mathias mathias (Small Branded Swift)
277 Borbo cinnara cinnara(Formosan Swift)
278 Pelopidas assamensis (Great Swift)
279 Pelopidas conjunctus conjunctus (Conjoined Swift)
280 Polytremis lubricans lubricans (Contiguous Swift)
281 Baoris farri farri
282 Baoris oceia (Paintbrush Swift)
283 Caltoris cormasa
284 Caltoris philippina philippina

[Silverstreak]

CHECKLIST OF SINGAPORE BUTTERFLIES 2008

Family : Papilionidae SubFamily : Papilioninae

1 Troides helena cerberus (Common Birdwing)
2 Pachliopta aristolochiae asteris (Common Rose)
3 Chilasa clytia clytia (Common Mime)
4 Papilio demoleus malayanus (Lime Butterfly)
5 Papilio demolion demolion (Banded Swallowtail)
6 Papilio iswara iswara (Great Helen)
7 Papilio polytes romulus (Common Mormon)
8 Papilio memnon agenor (Great Mormon)
9 Papilio prexaspes prexaspes (Blue Helen)
10 Graphium sarpedon luctatius (Common Bluebottle)
11 Graphium evemon eventus (Blue Jay)
12 Graphium doson evemonides (Common Jay)
13 Graphium agamemnon agamemnon (Tailed Jay)
14 Pathysa antiphates itamputi (Five Bar Swordtail)

Family : Pieridae Subfamily : Pierinae

15 Delias pasithoe parthenope (Red Base Jezebel)
16 Delias hyparete metarete (Painted Jezebel)
17 Leptosia nina malayana (Psyche)
18 Pieris canidia canidia (Cabbage White)
19 Appias lyncida vasava (Chocolate Albatross)
20 Appias libythea olferna (Striped Albatross)
21 Hebomoia glaucippe aturia (Great Orange Tip)

Family : Pieridae Subfamily : Coliadinae

22 Catopsilia pyranthe pyranthe (Mottled Emigrant)
23 Catopsilia pomona pomona (Lemon Emigrant)
24 Catopsilia scylla cornelia (Orange Emigrant)
25 Eurema brigitta senna (No Brand Grass Yellow)
26 Eurema hecabe contubernalis (Common Grass Yellow)
27 Eurema simulatrix tecmessa
28 Eurema blanda snelleni (Three Spot Grass Yellow)
29 Eurema andersonii andersonii (Anderson’s Grass Yellow)
30 Eurema sari sodalis (Chocolate Grass Yellow)
31 Gandaca harina distanti (Tree Yellow)

Family : Nymphalidae Subfamily : Danainae

32 Danaus chrysippus chrysippus (Plain Tiger)
33 Danaus genutia genutia (Common Tiger)
34 Danaus melanippus hegesippus (Black Veined Tiger)
35 Parantica agleoides agleoides (Dark Glassy Tiger)
36 Ideopsis vulgaris macrina (Blue Glassy Tiger)
37 Idea stolli logani (Tree Nymph)
38 Idea leuconoe chersonesia (Mangrove Tree Nymph)
39 Euploea crameri bremeri (Spotted Black Crow)
40 Euploea camaralzeman malayica (Malayan Crow)
41 Euploea eyndhovii gardineri (Striped Black Crow)
42 Euploea mulciber mulciber (Striped Blue Crow)
43 Euploea phaenareta castelnaui (King Crow)
44 Euploea midamus singapura (Blue Spotted Crow)
45 Euploea tulliolus ledereri (Dwarf Crow)
46 Euploea radamanthus radamanthus (Magpie Crow)

Family : Nymphalidae Subfamily :

47 Melanitis leda leda (Common Evening Brown)
48 Elymnias panthera panthera (Tawny Palmfly)
49 Elymnias hypermnestra agina (Common Palmfly)
50 Elymnias penanga penanga (Pointed Palmfly)
51 Lethe europa malaya (Bamboo Tree Brown)
52 Mycalesis fusca fusca (Malayan Bush Brown)
53 Mycalesis perseus cepheus (Dingy Bush Brown)
54 Mycalesis perseoides perseoides
55 Mycalesis mineus macromalayana (Dark Brand Bush Brown)
56 Mycalesis visala phamis (Long Brand Bush Brown)
57 Mycalesis orseis nautilus (Purple Bush Brown)
58 Orsotriaena medus cinerea (Nigger)
59 Ypthima huebneri (Common Four Ring)
60 Ypthima fasciata torone
61 Ypthima baldus newboldi (Common Five Ring)
62 Ypthima horsfieldii humei
63 Ypthima pandocus corticaria (Common Three Ring)

Family : Nymphalidae Subfamily : Morphinae

64 Faunis canens arcesilas (Common Faun)
65 Amathusia phidippus phidippus (Palm King)
66 Zeuxidia amethystus amethystus (Saturn)
67 Thaumantis klugius lucipor (Dark Blue Jungle Glory)
68 Discophora sondaica despoliata (Common Duffer)

Family : Nymphalidae Subfamily : Nymphalinae

69 Vanessa cardui (Painted Lady)
70 Hypolimnas anomala anomala (Malayan Eggfly)
71 Hypolimnas misippus misippus
72 Hypolimnas bolina bolina (Great Eggfly)
72A Hypolimnas bolina jacintha (Jacintha Eggfly)
73 Doleschallia bisaltide ?bisaltide (Autumn Leaf)
73A Doleschallia bisaltide pratipa (Autumn Leaf)
74 Junonia hedonia ida (Chocolate Pansy)
75 Junonia atlites atlites (Grey Pansy)
76 Junonia almana javana (Peacock Pansy)
77 Junonia orithya wallacei (Blue Pansy)

Family : Nymphalidae Subfamily : Heliconiinae

78 Acraea violae (Tawny Coster)
79 Cethosia hypsea hypsina (Malay Lacewing)
80 Cethosia penthesilea methypsea (Plain Lacewing)
81 Cethosia cyane (Leopard Lacewing)
82 Phalanta phalantha phalantha (Leopard)
83 Cupha erymanthis lotis (Rustic)
84 Cirrochroa orissa orissa (Banded Yeoman)
85 Vindula dejone erotella (Cruiser)
86 Terinos terpander robertsia (Royal Assyrian)

Family : Nymphalidae Subfamily : Limenitidinae

87 Moduza procris milonia (Commander)
88 Lebadea martha parkeri (Knight)
88A 88A. Lebadea martha malayana (Knight)
89 Athyma pravara helma (Lance Sergeant)
90 Athyma asura idita (Studded Sergeant)
91 Athyma kanwa kanwa (Dot-Dash Sergeant)
92 Athyma reta moorei (Malay Staff Sergeant)
93 Athyma nefte subrata (Colour Sergeant)
94 Pandita sinope sinope
95 Neptis hylas papaja (Common Sailor)
96 Neptis leucoporos cresina (Grey Sailor)
97 Neptis harita harita (Chocolate Sailor)
98 Phaedyma columella singa (Short Banded Sailor)
99 Lasippa heliodore dorelia (Burmese Lascar)
100 Lasippa tiga siaka (Malayan Lascar)
101 Pantoporia hordonia hordonia (Common Lascar)
102 Pantoporia paraka paraka (Perak Lascar)
103 Tanaecia pelea pelea (Malay Viscount)
104 Tanaecia iapis puseda (Horsfield's Baron)
105 Euthalia monina monina (Malay Baron)
106 Euthalia merta merta (White Tipped Baron)
107 Euthalia aconthea gurda (Baron)
108 Euthalia adonia pinwilli (Green Baron)
109 Lexias dirtea merguia (Black Tipped Archduke)
110 Lexias pardalis dirteana (Archduke)
111 Lexias canescens pardalina (Yellow Archduke)

Family : Nymphalidae Subfamily : Cyrestinae

112 Chersonesia peraka peraka (Little Maplet)

Family : Nymphalidae Subfamily : Apaturinae

113 Eulaceura osteria kumana (Purple Duke)
114 Euripus nyctelius euploeoides (Courtesan)

Family : Nymphalidae Subfamily : Charaxinae

115 Charaxes solon echo (Black Rajah)
116 Polyura hebe plautus (Plain Nawab)
117 Polyura schreiber tisamenus (Blue Nawab)

Family : Riodinidae

118 Abisara geza niya
119 Abisara savitri savitri (Malay Tailed Judy)
120 Abisara saturata kausambioides (Malayan Plum Judy)
121 Laxita thuisto thuisto (Lesser Harlequin)
122 Taxila haquinus haquinus (The Harlequin)

Family : Lycaenidae Subfamily : Poritiinae

123 Poritia philota philota
124 Poritia sumatrae sumatrae (Sumatran Gem)

Family : Lycaenidae Subfamily : Miletinae

125 Miletus gopara gopara
126 Miletus biggsii biggsii (Bigg's Brownie)
127 Miletus symethus petronius
128 Allotinus unicolor unicolor (Lesser Darkie)
129 Logania marmorata damis
130 Spalgis epius epius (The Apefly)

Family : Lycaenidae Subfamily : Curetinae

131 Curetis santana malayica (Malayan Sunbeam)
132 Curetis saronis sumatrana (Sumatran Sunbeam)

[Silverstreak]

Administrative Arrangement for Photo Selection and Submission

To facilitate the ease of submission and management of pictures the following are the arrangement:

1. Naming convention: Use the checklist in the posts before this in naming your pictures. ie say if Horace has a shot of the Pratapa deva relata (White Royal) , the file name will be :

Species number+ Scinetific Name (common name)+Photog's Name

197 Pratapa deva relata (white Royal ) Horace Tan

(Please note the numbering of species for this book is slightly different from the Forum's Photo Checklist.)

2. Upload to Photobucket: Open a new Photobucket account and upload your web size shots and provide the link here( and password if require) for khew to access and view the shots. For example :

http://s498.photobucket.com/albums/rr349/ChirSunny/

Guest Password : butterflies ( if you have designated it private)

(Do note most photo hosting sites accept only Jpeg file and NOT Tif file)

3. Submission of Full Resolution Files: You will receive a PM on the shots that are tentatively picked and to proceed to burn the selected shots' full resolution file on a CD/DVD for onward transmission to Khew

The file resolution and size requirement are as follow :

Resolution : 300PPI

Size : Long side 2000 pixels on 6x4 for lanscape or 5x4 in portrait

File format : Tif file in CMYK color mode

Cut off Date : 30th Nov 2008

The earlier you do the above the smoother will be the process.

Thank You in anticipation!



:cheers:

[Archduke]

thank you sunny for putting in the effot of providing us the numbers to the species and the solution for khew to view our pictures.

[Silverstreak]

Here are my shots for khew's consideration....


Link to Photobucket :

http://s433.photobucket.com/albums/qq58/scarefree/?special_track=nav_tab_my_albums



:cheers:

[Commander]

Thanks, Sunny. Quite a lot of usable shots in there... :thumbsup:

Just giving a quick scan thru' there are a couple of mis-labelled species. 131-3 and 208-6 are mis-labelled.

Anyone has good shots of the male Common Birdwing?

[Painted Jezebel]

I have upper and underside shots, but they are shot in JPEG. Also, I do not know if they will be good enough (have 'messy' backgrounds, as is my preference!).

[Commander]

Thanks for the offer, Les. At this moment, the more the merrier. It's more of people being rather 'shy' about submitting their works, rather than submitting too many that we are concerned with at the moment.

In fact, I'm already "reserving" your female Courtesan shots. :)

All : Do something like Sunny has done in his 'album' and I'll go in and seek out the photos that I need. What I'm doing, is to look at the book from an overview on the quality and diversity. Don't worry if e.g. some shots have black backgrounds. I am taking in the general picture of how the book would look like and also vary the types of photos. (The book will be very boring if all the photos have the butts perched on a flower with a totally green background for all 280 species that we are featuring!)

[Great Mormon]

Thanks, Sunny. Quite a lot of usable shots in there... :thumbsup:

Just giving a quick scan thru' there are a couple of mis-labelled species. 131-3 and 208-6 are mis-labelled.

Anyone has good shots of the male Common Birdwing?

I believe that Terry has a mating pair :D

[Commander]

Whose pristine female Saturn shot is this?

[Silverstreak]

Just giving a quick scan thru' there are a couple of mis-labelled species. 131-3 and 208-6 are mis-labelled.



Thanks for pointing out the mislabelling

131-3 should be 220-3 Rapala iarbus iarbus (Common Red Flash)

208-6 should be 198 Tajuria cippus maxentius (Peacock Royal)

:cheers:

[Commander]

Whose pristine female Saturn shot is this?

Oh... it's Jason Ng's one. Shot at USR some time back.

[Silverstreak]

Whose pristine female Saturn shot is this?


That is Jason's shot .... in the checklist.

[Silverstreak]

Some members are likely to be first time preparing a file in CMYK color mode in Tif file format .

Please refer to the Digital Darkroom Thread (http://butterflycircle.com/forums/showthread.php?p=71518#post71518) for some relevant extracts of articles.


.

:cheers:

[Great Mormon]

heres my contribution.
http://inckurei.deviantart.com/gallery/#butt-book

i have the original tiff in cmyk.

[Common Rose]

my original are almost all in jpg... will submit asap, say by end of sep. rather busy currently.

[Cruiser]

here is my submission (http://s483.photobucket.com/albums/rr194/BJTan/) for your consideration.

[Leopard Lacewing]

here is my submission (http://s483.photobucket.com/albums/rr194/BJTan/) for your consideration.

Nice shots, Ben Jin... post more leh :bsmile:

Wow! everyone got so nice shots :thumbsup:

Cheers!

[Silverstreak]

:old: :old: :old: :old: fortune telling :whistle:

Cut off Date : 30th Nov 2008

:
: ... 3 months? more than 90 days a long long time.... maybe I will do it next week....

......procastinate........

ops! almost 30 days gone liao , nvm next week ...:prrr: ... Nebermind got another 60 days to do............


one month later....;-) got 30 days what .... what's the hurry!!... do it this coming Sunday lah ....

25th November 08 :

:omg: Next week boh eng , how to covert to CYMK, what is the procedure? where the %$^#^*& is my pictures??.................





Disclaimer: Character in this script is frictional, any similarity to real life situation is purely coincidental.

[benetay]

I got none to contribute. :sweat:

[Silverstreak]

I got none to contribute. :sweat:

I saw two that are worth doing some work on and let khew have a look:

http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii215/bendanbutt/ChestnutAngle.jpg


http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii215/bendanbutt/biggsmating-1.jpg

[Commander]

Thanks, Sunny. Yes, I agree that those two are worthy to be featured in the book. Bene, you can either email to me in the format as described in the earlier part of this thread, or burn on a CD and pass to me when we next meet. Thanks! :)


Thanks for the reminder Mr Project Manager (Sunny).

Handling a few crises at work these few weeks. Have to put the project on hold for a while. Will get back to it. :-(

[benetay]

Thanks Sunny,Khew for being appreciative.

Will rework those & send it to you via post(CD) or email. Since cut off date is 30th Nov, i still got a little time after exams to finish or help around. Going to experince a very 'hectic' 6 weeks before i'll be less busy.

Cheers!

[Great Mormon]

my comp died! ><
i'll try to recover them asap

[benetay]

Since i got only 2 can i post it here to view? Let me know what kind of re work is needed. I've change both to TIFF CMYK.

Here are the 2 which is in JPEG, realise the colour shift when change to CMYK.

241-Odontoptilum-angulatum
http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii215/bendanbutt/241-Odontoptilum-angulatum-.jpg

126-Miletus-biggsii-biggsii
http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii215/bendanbutt/126-Miletus-biggsii-biggsii-1.jpg

Cheers!

[Elbowed Pierrot]

paiseh, got things to rush. My dissertation supervisor decided to change my topic at the last minute and I have to prepare a new topic to change and prepare a list of aims/objectives and scope for the new topic *faint*. Will have to wait till the last minute before I can sit down and look through the pix that I have

[Common Rose]

I've ftp 5 files up today. Will try to look for more in the more than 20 CDs... :sweat:

btw, the files were originally in jpg... I just convert to CMYK and resize to 2000 at the longest.

[abielneo]

Just 2 contributions for vetting!

Common Four Ring and Tailless Line Blue.

http://s229.photobucket.com/albums/ee102/abielneo/Butterflies/Guide%20Book/

[Great Mormon]

Hello everyone,

its abt 1 1/2 months away from the deadline, thought i could give a bump to this old thread to encourage BC members to contribute photos for the upcoming Guide to the Butterflies of Singapore book by Khew!

Thanks! :D

[Bluebottle]

Hmm... my skills are so so only.
Anyway, my macro collections can be found at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pfloke/sets/72157603838001469/

Let me know if you find any of the pictures useful.
Thanks.

[Commander]

I've been working on the species section of the book, and will probably clear my leave in early Dec to finalise the write ups for the first section of the book.

For the species section, it will contain at least 280 species (just to get a nice number) but may go higher if we have good photos. Priority will be given to those species which are definitely seen in Singapore over the past 5 years, and will include those which are migratory or likely to have gone extinct since they were last seen.

In my hard disk, each species is designated a folder, into which I will put in the descriptive write up, key details box, one primary photo which will be the full width of the page (if landscape) and up to 4 secondary photos (which may be cropped to square format, depending on the design of each page)

I will be emailing each individual photographer for your photos, which I feel would be suitable for the book, starting with the Papilionidae and Pieridae families, for which I've completed the write ups. Once completed, I will progressively hand the folders to the layout artist, and then move on to the other families.

Once I email you, please revert with your photos in the format and resolution as earlier mentioned in this thread. If you do not revert in about a week, I will source for other photographers' work.

If you think you have photos which are suitable for the book, you are also welcomed to put them on one of the online websites and let me know the URLs.

Please do not sharpen or over-crop your shots. Leave it to the publisher to standardise the sharpening. Some shots may have to be cropped, and if you leave too little space around the butt, we may have to drop the shot if it is not usable.

[benetay]

Pardon me for my absence these few weeks, will be back soonest once after my paper.

Cheers!

[Wanderer]

sounds like an exciting project going on. I doubt I'll have much to contribute, but I think I will place order for one book. :grin2:

[Silverstreak]

Count down to cut-off-date for photo submission:

21 more days to go to 30th November

If you dun process you shot now , it is unlikely that you are ever going to do it

...in any case 3 months was given.





Administrative Arrangement for Photo Selection and Submission

To facilitate the ease of submission and management of pictures the following are the arrangement:

1. Naming convention: Use the checklist in the posts before this in naming your pictures. ie say if Horace has a shot of the Pratapa deva relata (White Royal) , the file name will be :

Species number+ Scinetific Name (common name)+Photog's Name

197 Pratapa deva relata (white Royal ) Horace Tan

(Please note the numbering of species for this book is slightly different from the Forum's Photo Checklist.)

2. Upload to Photobucket: Open a new Photobucket account and upload your web size shots and provide the link here( and password if require) for khew to access and view the shots. For example :

http://s498.photobucket.com/albums/rr349/ChirSunny/

Guest Password : butterflies ( if you have designated it private)

(Do note most photo hosting sites accept only Jpeg file and NOT Tif file)

3. Submission of Full Resolution Files: You will receive a PM on the shots that are tentatively picked and to proceed to burn the selected shots' full resolution file on a CD/DVD for onward transmission to Khew

The file resolution and size requirement are as follow :

Resolution : 300PPI

Size : Long side 2000 pixels on 6x4 for lanscape or 5x4 in portrait

File format : Tif file in CMYK color mode

Cut off Date : 30th Nov 2008

The earlier you do the above the smoother will be the process.

Thank You in anticipation!



:cheers:

[Elbowed Pierrot]

coming... right after my test today :(

[Great Mormon]

coming... right after my test today :(

mines done, will pass to you in a cd next time we meet. I will also include Neo Chee Beng's photos which he uploaded to the ftp last time. :cheers:

[benetay]

Will pass the CD to Khew when i meet him the next time.

Luckily i only got 2 pictures to share. :bsmile:

Cheers!

[Silverstreak]

Final Reminder !

The last weekend, you have 9 days to closing on :

30th November 08



Administrative Arrangement for Photo Selection and Submission

To facilitate the ease of submission and management of pictures the following are the arrangement:

1. Naming convention: Use the checklist in the posts before this in naming your pictures. ie say if Horace has a shot of the Pratapa deva relata (White Royal) , the file name will be :

Species number+ Scinetific Name (common name)+Photog's Name

197 Pratapa deva relata (white Royal ) Horace Tan

(Please note the numbering of species for this book is slightly different from the Forum's Photo Checklist.)

2. Upload to Photobucket: Open a new Photobucket account and upload your web size shots and provide the link here( and password if require) for khew to access and view the shots. For example :

http://s498.photobucket.com/albums/rr349/ChirSunny/

Guest Password : butterflies ( if you have designated it private)

(Do note most photo hosting sites accept only Jpeg file and NOT Tif file)

3. Submission of Full Resolution Files: You will receive a PM on the shots that are tentatively picked and to proceed to burn the selected shots' full resolution file on a CD/DVD for onward transmission to Khew

The file resolution and size requirement are as follow :

Resolution : 300PPI

Size : Long side 2000 pixels on 6x4 for lanscape or 5x4 in portrait

File format : Tif file in CMYK color mode

Cut off Date : 30th Nov 2008

The earlier you do the above the smoother will be the process.

Thank You in anticipation!



:cheers:

[Silverstreak]

Benedict,

I think this is the best shot of the Male Scarce Silverstreak I have seen so far !

Can we have if for consideration for the book?

http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii215/bendanbutt/Silverstreak3post.jpg

:cheers:

[benetay]

Sunny! You sure??? i already given my softcopy to Khew. Okay will need Master yoda to confirm.

This might take a while for the bigger version, since i only save the smaller ones :(

Anyway got difference between male & female? I saw some female shots look almost a like.

The book is limited edition? Can i buy extra one more just in case someone might need it in future.

Cheers!

[Silverstreak]

Benedict,

This is the guy we shot last Saturday right ? Same one I got the upperwing shot. So it is definitely a male.

Get it done in :

Resolution : 300PPI

Size : Long side 2000 pixels on 6x4 for lanscape or 5x4 in portrait

File format : Tif file in CMYK color mode

.... file transfer to me at MSN tonite for Master Yoda's consideration.

[benetay]

Yes Sir! I'll try my best. Yes it's the same one we took. MSN, i might not be able to log in due to constraint.

Cheers!

[Cruiser]

The FTP site does not seem to be working? need some helps otherwise I'll burn it to a CD instead.

[Commander]

Thanks, Ben Jin. I think burning a CD may be better. All the others have so far given me CDs. Anthony helped to burn Neo's pictures on a CD as well. :)

[Cruiser]

Ok, will do.

[Silverstreak]

One hour to closing time!

Thank you all for the support.

Those who din make it this time , hope to see yours in BooK II !:)



:cheers:

[benetay]

Book II? Hmm, when will that be?

[Commander]

Ok. Zooming along with another call for final photos as all the species' write ups are completed. :)

Papilionidae : Photos still needed


Tailed Jay - good open wing shot. I recall either LC or Horace has one?
Common Birdwing - another good open wing shot. Male or Female also can.
Lime Butterfly - open wing shot. Ben Jin can you process the one in our blog article? The one perched on a fern.
Pieridae/Coliadinae : Photos still needed

Lemon Emigrant - anyone has an open winged shot? Male or Female also can.
Orange Emigrant - open wing shot?
Mottled Emigrant - open wing shot?
More to come... ;P

[horace2264]

Ok. Zooming along with another call for final photos as all the species' write ups are completed. :)

Papilionidae : Photos still needed


Tailed Jay - good open wing shot. I recall either LC or Horace has one?
Common Birdwing - another good open wing shot. Male or Female also can.
Lime Butterfly - open wing shot. Ben Jin can you process the one in our blog article? The one perched on a fern.

Pieridae/Coliadinae : Photos still needed

Lemon Emigrant - anyone has an open winged shot? Male or Female also can.
Orange Emigrant - open wing shot?
Mottled Emigrant - open wing shot?

More to come... ;P

Nope, I don't have an open wing shot of the Tailed Jay. What I have is one of the Plain Nawab.

[Commander]

Nope, I don't have an open wing shot of the Tailed Jay. What I have is one of the Plain Nawab.

Ok. Thanks. I'll PM you with a list of what I'll need from you. You have quite a good collection of pristine specimen shots from your breeding efforts.

[benetay]

:thumbsup:


You have quite a good collection of pristine specimen shots from your breeding efforts.

That i agree.
Cheers!

[Cruiser]

If you can't find one from LC/Horace, I have one (http://butterflycircle.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6110&highlight=Tailed+Jay) studio shot here for your consideration.

will send you the lime butt pic later.

[Glorious Begum]

I think I have the Tailed Jay shot, I will get back to you this evening after work. Will check on others too :cheers:



Ok. Zooming along with another call for final photos as all the species' write ups are completed. :)

Papilionidae : Photos still needed


Tailed Jay - good open wing shot. I recall either LC or Horace has one?
Common Birdwing - another good open wing shot. Male or Female also can.
Lime Butterfly - open wing shot. Ben Jin can you process the one in our blog article? The one perched on a fern.
Pieridae/Coliadinae : Photos still needed

Lemon Emigrant - anyone has an open winged shot? Male or Female also can.
Orange Emigrant - open wing shot?
Mottled Emigrant - open wing shot?
More to come... ;P

[Common Mime]

Khew, If it fits your requirements. http://butterflycircle.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7744
Ok. Zooming along with another call for final photos as all the species' write ups are completed. :)

Papilionidae : Photos still needed


Tailed Jay - good open wing shot. I recall either LC or Horace has one?
Common Birdwing - another good open wing shot. Male or Female also can.
Lime Butterfly - open wing shot. Ben Jin can you process the one in our blog article? The one perched on a fern.
Pieridae/Coliadinae : Photos still needed

Lemon Emigrant - anyone has an open winged shot? Male or Female also can.
Orange Emigrant - open wing shot?
Mottled Emigrant - open wing shot?
More to come... ;P

[Commander]

Khew, If it fits your requirements. http://butterflycircle.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7744

Thanks. Good possibility. I'll also wait for LC's shot and see which one would better fit the book's pages.

What I'm trying to do is to mix "studio-like" shots with environmental shots. If all the pics feature butts with totally clean backgrounds, the book will be very boring. Also, it depends on which pages are the species on, and what's on the facing page, and next page. Not as easy as just collecting the shots and pasting them into the text. :sweat: