At Rest
by pamelasue

Comment by Ringostarr:
Nice macro and pretty butterfly. 8

guitar solo
by pamelasue

Comment by loriprophoto:
Team member's entry - comment, no vote.

Good luck with this entry Pam, nice shot!

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by pamelasue

Comment by patio127:
Baby robin ??? Absolutely beautiful image !

At Rest
by pamelasue

Comment by Alain:
Very nice macro

At Rest
by pamelasue

Comment by JLC:
Beautiful coler and detail in your butterfly. Great DOF.

At Rest
by pamelasue

Comment by vtruan:
very nice.

guitar solo
by pamelasue

Comment by johnmcboston:
Nice lighting for an indoor shot. Or was this staged? (ba-dum-bum)

At Rest
by pamelasue

Comment by ephln:
Beautiful photo...great depth of field.

At Rest
by pamelasue

Comment by Jutilda:
As far as butterfly shots go, this is well done. Nice curved lines of the grass and the focus and dof are spot on. I might up the saturation of color just a smidge.

Behind the Beauty
by pamelasue

Comment by DrAchoo:
The Technicals: Lighting is good. It's even and you controlled the highlight fairly well. The blacks are black. That said, the lighting is also not dramatic. In other words, it merely lights the subject instead of interacting with it. Focus is an issue. Your focus plane is on the stem of the plant. Probably the sharpest focus should be on the petals somewhere. Using a smaller aperture could have helped (then you would have to use a tripod, but no matter, the flower isn't moving, you could do a 2 second exposure if you wanted). Composition is fairly good. Not centered, but not particularly dynamic.

The feel: Straightforward. We see a picture of a flower which has been done fairly well, but it doesn't provide any "wow". We take it in quickly, then move on. There is no reason to linger.

The game: Flowers have to be done interestingly on DPC to survive. Look at ursula. She excels with flowers, so they can be done well, but she also does interesting things with them. You got a huge number of 5s which means the shot didn't lack in the technical dept too bad, but didn't do anything for people either. Work on some "wow".