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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Surreybirder" data-source="post: 1449785" data-attributes="member: 1211">Persistence is probably the key. If the moth gets hyper-active in the conservatory, where I do most of my indoor photos, I usually put it somewhere cool (i.e. the shed) for a while and see if it settles down.The powdered quaker above eventually settled on a flower for a few seconds.The other thing I have learned is to have a system of indexing the photos. I keep the originals in one file and all the edited ones that I have uploaded to the web in another. I also have dated folders so that I can give copies to my county recorder for verification. Of course that includes many 'record shots' that I would be embarrassed to publish but can be OK for ID purposes. Since I got my camera I've taken over 6,000 shots, the vast majority of moths. If it's a new species or one that I've not got a decent photo of, I usually try and take at least a dozen shots so that I've got a reasonable chance of having one or two that look reasonable.Ken</blockquote>