Painted Lady
by raish

Comment by kari1:
this is interesting but bokeh does appear to take over the whole picture as the moth is quite unfocused in places. The hevy border also doesn't seem to help.

Painted Lady
by raish

Comment by Wicketress:
Nice job...but image is soft...

Mona Lisa with a Pearl Earing
by raish

Comment by walrus451:
great subject but there seems to be too much neat image (or similar) on the face....

Mona Lisa with a Pearl Earing
by raish

Comment by bassbone:
a very pretty girl - there seems to be far too much smoothing and noise reduction on her face

Mona Lisa with a Pearl Earing
by raish

Comment by bubeltrubel:
too much Neat Image here

Mona Lisa with a Pearl Earing
by raish

Comment by Ann:
You've done a nice job filling the frame, and getting a nice expression from your model. The light's kind of harsh for this kind of subject, though, and it looks like you've done a lot of work smoothing out her face, to the point where it looks pretty unnatural.

Mona Lisa with a Pearl Earing
by raish

Comment by h2:
well cropped, but much too much softening, black border distracts

Mona Lisa with a Pearl Earing
by raish

Comment by JeffDay:
very pretty model with a great smile, looks like too much neat image.

Mona Lisa with a Pearl Earing
by raish

Comment by Nowaytotell:
imo this seems a little too plastic looking

A Scheme of Things
by raish

Comment by JuliBoc:
I'm afraid I didn't rate this very high. I am bothered by the not being able to see the entire butterfly on the left, and I can't see the right butterfly clearly. The background seems to overpower the subject. The flower is very nice and I like the way the colors of the right butterfly match the flower. I like the DOF. It feels almost 3D.

All that being said, I think your pictures are usually very carefully composed, and I am thinking that you probably created this exactly as you wanted it. Therefore we probably just have a different way of looking at butterflies.